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'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl' (2019)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2019). 'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl'. Feminist Review, 122, 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778919845642

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already... Read More about 'On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl'.

Challenging Sensationalism: Narratives on Rape as a Weapon of War in Syria (2019)
Journal Article
Lokot, M. (2019). Challenging Sensationalism: Narratives on Rape as a Weapon of War in Syria. International Criminal Law Review, 19(5), 844-871. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01906001

Rape during conflict is often over-simplified and sensationalised in the accounts of international humanitarian agencies. This article suggests that such narratives on rape are connected to the way international tribunals and courts have narrowly fra... Read More about Challenging Sensationalism: Narratives on Rape as a Weapon of War in Syria.

Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition) (2019)
Book
Hamzić, V. (2019). Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609147

This book offers a path-breaking historical analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in, or related to, the Muslim world, as well as an ethnographic account of contemporary Muslims in Lahore, Pakistan, whose pluralist sexual and gend... Read More about Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition).

Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender (2019)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2019). Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender. Feminist Theory, 20(4), 361-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700119870640

Looking from a critical race perspective at Wittig’s lesbian, in this article, I draw two conclusions. First, I suggest that it is actually trans exclusionary lesbians' own transphobia that makes them cis-gendered. And second, it becomes clear that t... Read More about Im/Possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender.

A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past. Presented at Panel on Feminist Theories and Epistemologies from the Global South, Symposium on Critical Approaches to International Law, Griffith College Dublin, Ireland

Feminist theories and epistemologies from the global south comprise a vast array of critical praxis, which has maintained a complex and often ambiguous web of relations with transnational feminist movements. On the one hand, in their attempts to dece... Read More about A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past.

Building Transnational Feminist Alliances: reflections on the post 2015 development agenda (2019)
Journal Article
Okech, A., & Musindarwezo, D. (2019). Building Transnational Feminist Alliances: reflections on the post 2015 development agenda. Contexto internacional, 41(2), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2019410200002

This article reflects on transnational feminist organising by drawing on the experiences of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) during the consultations leading up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. First,... Read More about Building Transnational Feminist Alliances: reflections on the post 2015 development agenda.

Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship (2019)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2019). Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 15(2), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490953

My article draws on a yearlong fieldwork conducted in Lebanon and builds on the existing literature on love and marriage in the Arab world in order to reiterate the unison of the imaginary with the material when thinking through romantic love. In add... Read More about Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship.

Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Istratii, R. (2019, June). Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community. Paper presented at Development Studies Association Conference 2019, ‘Opening up Development’, The Open University, Milton Keynes

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has comprised one of the priority areas of public health research and practice, especially in relation to African development. However, this scholarship and practice has been dominated by gender-based violence (GBV) ae... Read More about Decolonising aetiologies and theories of IPV in public health scholarship and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of conjugal abuse from an Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahәdo community.

Gender and state-building conversations: the discursive production of gender identity in Kenya and Rwanda (2019)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2019). Gender and state-building conversations: the discursive production of gender identity in Kenya and Rwanda. Conflict, Security & Development, 21(4), 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1609762

This article advances the conceptualisation of conversations on state-building by examining gendered discourses. By focusing on specific historical moments in Rwanda and Kenya, this article analyses how ‘respectable femininities’ and ‘wayward sexuali... Read More about Gender and state-building conversations: the discursive production of gender identity in Kenya and Rwanda.

Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia. Paper presented at GenderX: Transnational and Decolonial Perspectives on and beyond the Gender Binary, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London

The fashioning of specifically ‘male’ and ‘female’ subjects—whether free, indentured or enslaved—was a sine qua non preoccupation of the early capitalist economy, of which the trans-Atlantic slave trade was one of the key derivatives. When this trade... Read More about Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia.

Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts. Paper presented at Panel on Hannah Arendt: On Violence, Power and Revolution, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

How does one conceive of a history, if not always already from a particular Sitz im Leben, one’s life’s present context, one’s presumed epistemic ‘reality’—so fashioned by one’s life- experience of being- and learning-in-the-world? Can there ever be... Read More about Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts.

Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. Paper presented at Roundtable Session on Critical Directions: On Gender, Law and Intersectional Subjectivities, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

The book project I currently work on seeks to offer a critical historical analysis of the all but forgotten eighteenth-century lifeworlds of the enslaved West Africans, who were brought largely from the ports of Senegambia to colonial Louisiana. I ar... Read More about Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana.

On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights. Paper presented at Author Meets Reader Session, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already... Read More about On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights.