Outputs (13)

International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, December). International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other. Paper presented at Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia

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.

Re-membering Mwanga: same-sex intimacy, memory and belonging in postcolonial Uganda (2015)
Journal Article
Rao, R. (2015). Re-membering Mwanga: same-sex intimacy, memory and belonging in postcolonial Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 9(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.970600

Proponents of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014 have denounced homosexuality as an import from the West. Yet every June, hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims in Uganda commemorate a set of events, the hegemonic textual accounts of which piv... Read More about Re-membering Mwanga: same-sex intimacy, memory and belonging in postcolonial Uganda.

Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, September). Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis. Paper presented at Third World Approaches to International Law Writing Workshop: On Praxis and the Intellectual, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

This paper revisits the idea of Muslim Marxism, as espoused through the life and work of the Tatar Muslim and Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev (1892-1940). I argue that Sultan-Galiev’s oeuvre – a unique synthesis of Mar... Read More about Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.

Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony (2015)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony. Settler Colonial Studies, 6(2), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2015.1024366

No other aspect of property so infuses our social, psycho-symbolic, cultural and political realms as the idea of possession. Whether considering modern theories of subjectivity, relationships between people (from labour relations to intimate ones of... Read More about Possession, Occupation and Registration: Recombinant Ownership in the Settler Colony.

The Tyranny of Numbers: UN Statistics on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by its Peacekeepers (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grady, K. (2015, June). The Tyranny of Numbers: UN Statistics on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by its Peacekeepers. Paper presented at Academic Council on the United Nations System Annual Meeting 2015, The Hague

Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony (2015)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2015). Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony. Journal of Law and Society, 42(2), 253-282. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00707.x

The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space... Read More about Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony.

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2015)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40(2), 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2014.985774

In the post-1857 colonial era, the Indian social and legal landscape underwent a seismic shift, caused by evermore direct and forceful British rule in many spheres of life, including human-animal and gender relations. This paper provides a brief anal... Read More about The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.

Law, Sovereignty and Recognition (2015)
Book Chapter
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2015). Law, Sovereignty and Recognition. In B. Bhandar, & J. Goldberg-Hiller (Eds.), Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (209-232). Duke University Press

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (2015)
Book
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (Eds.). (2015). Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw1jx

Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities-whose disciplines include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social theory, literature, and p... Read More about Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou.

Between Law and History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the Logic of Free Trade (2015)
Journal Article
Craven, M. (2015). Between Law and History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the Logic of Free Trade. London Review of International Law, 3(1), 31-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrv002

The Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884-1885 has assumed a powerful symbolic presence in international legal accounts of the 19th century, but for historians of the era its importance has often been doubted. This article seeks to re-interpret the p... Read More about Between Law and History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the Logic of Free Trade.

Introduction: Staging Encounters (2015)
Book Chapter
Bhandar, B., & Goldberg-Hiller, J. (2015). Introduction: Staging Encounters. In B. Bhandar, & J. Goldberg-Hiller (Eds.), Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (1-34). Duke University Press

Echoes of Imperialism in LGBT Activism (2015)
Book Chapter
Rao, R. (2015). Echoes of Imperialism in LGBT Activism. In K. Nicolaïdis, B. Sèbe, & G. Maas (Eds.), Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies (355-372). I. B. Tauris

Race, Real Estate and Real Abstraction (2015)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B., & Toscano, A. (2015). Race, Real Estate and Real Abstraction. Radical Philosophy, 194, 8-17

In this article, we want to think through this articulation of race, property and capitalist abstraction, exploring how attention to the forms of property may permit novel and politically urgent insights into the relationship between capitalism and r... Read More about Race, Real Estate and Real Abstraction.