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Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, June). Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). Paper presented at Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Thinking along with tumbleweeds, this paper proposes an ontoepistemic perspective on spillages and mattering in human and non-human worldings that challenges recent resurgences, in anthropological and other social theory, of a dialectical divide betw... Read More about Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere).

Worldings that Spill and that Matter (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, March). Worldings that Spill and that Matter. Paper presented at Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, USA

Against the rise of a whole host of new takes on the primacy of the ontological in solving ostensibly epistemological questions—evidenced, for example, in certain expositions of the ontological turn in social anthropology, the speculative turn in ‘co... Read More about Worldings that Spill and that Matter.

Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & S. Gerry (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (447-466). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.020

Against a great deal of contemporary Cold War scholarship, this chapter argues that Pakistan’s complex relations with the United States—as well as with the Soviet Union, China, India and Afghanistan—place it firmly at the centre of global Cold War po... Read More about Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.

Migration (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V., & Thomas, C. (2019, November). Migration. Presented at Lunch Roundtable, IGLP Retreat, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA, USA

Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, October). Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali. Presented at discussion on Vasuki Nesiah’s ‘Trigger: Gender as Tool and Weapon’, Inaugural Annual Lecture on Gender Studies and Law, SOAS University of London

I could not think of a better, more engaging and more urgent way to celebrate the inception of the annual SOAS Lecture on Gender Studies and Law! What Vasuki has just given us is, indeed, a masterclass in decolonial feminist critique of the emergent,... Read More about Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali.

On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, October). On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts. Presented at Beyond Inequality Workshop, Cape Cod, MA, USA

I feel that my current research on eighteenth-century intersections of global capitalism, slavery, colonial legality and gender diversity in the Atlantic world, and their contemporary relevance, speaks to quite a few questions raised in the brief mem... Read More about On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts.

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.

The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia. Paper presented at Panel on Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time, On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki, Finland

My talk today proceeds from a chapter in a book that has now been quite long in the making, based on my critical historical and anthropological research of ‘eighteenth- century’ West African communities and subjectivities whose gender-variance, sexua... Read More about The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities 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.

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.

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.

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.

'Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, September). 'Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law'. Paper presented at Cold War International Law IV, Tbilisi, Georgia

International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other. In D. Otto (Ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (77-90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315266787-5

This paper analyses the would-be paradox of international law’s continuous evolution towards evermore-diverse forms of juridical violence. From the falsehood of imperial pacifism, through the perils of its multiple turns to ‘pragmatism’ and quasi-pro... Read More about International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other.

'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans' (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, May). 'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'. Paper presented at Biennial Conference, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American archive of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been described as an agonism (Kazanjian, 2016). On the one hand, as Saidiya Hartman suggests, what little remains of the official records of the lifew... Read More about 'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'.

Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism. In H. Brabazon (Ed.), Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project (190-209). Routledge

This chapter examines the prospect of radical re-imagination of the paradigm of law and legality, tout court. It is argued that – in the present-day capitalist mode of economic, cultural and political production – every law and law-making activity is... Read More about Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism.

Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality. In O. Sircar, & P. Jain (Eds.), New Intimacies / Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (235-252). Zubaan Books; Chicago University Press