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Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality (2012)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2012). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality. Jindal Global Law Review, 4(1), 71-85

This study presents a critical genealogical analysis of the narratives and politics of representation of various human subjectivities in Indonesia who transgress dominant universalising sexual and gender norms. It traces various streams of regulation... Read More about Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality.

Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital (2012)
Journal Article
Hull, E. (2012). Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18(3), 613-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2012.01779.x

This paper explores the extent and reach of ‘audit culture’ in a rural government hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I describe the institution’s efforts at instilling a new public sector ethos that involves intensifying mechanisms of audit and... Read More about Paperwork and the contradictions of accountability in a South African hospital.

Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak (2012)
Book Chapter
Janowski, M. (2012). Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak. In M. Janowski, & T. Ingold (Eds.), Imagining Landscapes: Past Present and Future. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315587899-8

This chapter suggests that, building on Ingold's work, we can use Kelabit ideas to encourage us to think further about the nature of individuation within a continuous flow of power and life through the cosmos. The Kelabit of Sarawak, probably in comm... Read More about Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak.

Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, December). Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood. Presented at Queer at King's Lectures Series, King's College London

This talk presents a brief legal anthropological account of the narratives and politics of representation of various human subjectivities in Indonesia who transgress the dominant universalising sexual and gender norms. It traces both macro- and micro... Read More about Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood.

Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, October). Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality. Paper presented at Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

This study presents a critical ethnographic analysis of the narratives and politics of representation of gender-variant human subjectivities in Indonesia. It interrogates, in particular, Eisenstein's concept of ‘polyversal’ personhood in relation to... Read More about Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality.

Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, September). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?. Presented at Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India

This paper offers a brief genealogical analysis of sexual and gender diversity in Indonesia. It traces various streams of regulation, including those reliant on liberal legalistic discourse of human rights. It is argued that this discourse remains in... Read More about Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?.

Unbecoming One: Legal Construction of Muslim Family in Indonesia (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, June). Unbecoming One: Legal Construction of Muslim Family in Indonesia. Paper presented at Pro-Seminar on Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University

This project seeks to unearth an astonishing diversity of familial ties and types amongst Indonesian Muslim communities, including those considered illicit or 'irregular' by the state and religious authorities. It traces down and analyses various leg... Read More about Unbecoming One: Legal Construction of Muslim Family in Indonesia.

The Resistance from a “Third Space”: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, May). The Resistance from a “Third Space”: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. Paper presented at The Politics of Living Religion/Spirituality and Gender/Sexuality in Everyday Context Conference, Novotel Hotel St Pancras, London

This brief study seeks to understand how gender-variant and sexually diverse Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia encounter and resist two hegemonic identitarian ideological discourses: that of heteronormative Muslim theopolitical reductionism and that... Read More about The Resistance from a “Third Space”: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms.

Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia (2011)
Book Chapter
Janowski, M., & Barker, G. (2011). Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia. In M. Janowski, & G. Barker (Eds.), Why Cultivate? Understandings of past and present adoption, abandonment, and commitment to agriculture in Southeast Asia. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism (2010)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2010). Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37(3), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2010.524435

Amongst the multitude of attempts to re-examine the heritage, history and textual basis of the Alevi tradition, one particular issue remains of importance; the putative relationship between Alevi and Christian groups in the Balkans and Anatolia. In p... Read More about Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.

International migration, "domestic struggles" and status aspiration among nurses in South Africa (2010)
Journal Article
Hull, E. (2010). International migration, "domestic struggles" and status aspiration among nurses in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(4), 851-867. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2010.527641

The achievement of upward mobility through participation in international labour markets has become possible for nurses in the context of a ‘new’ democratic South Africa, but this
contrasts sharply with the predicament of many in the post-apartheid... Read More about International migration, "domestic struggles" and status aspiration among nurses in South Africa.

Iconicity and the Preservation of Culture in Korea (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2010, April). Iconicity and the Preservation of Culture in Korea. Presented at Preserving the Past, Looking to the Future: Tradition and Its Future in Music, University of Sydney

The Korean Intangible Cultural Property system and its applicability to music, contrasting likely scenarios of what would have happened without a state-organised preservation system, and outlining social, dynamic, and cultural changes that have occur... Read More about Iconicity and the Preservation of Culture in Korea.

World Music: Whose Music and Whose World? (2010)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2010). World Music: Whose Music and Whose World?. Omnes, 1(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.15685/omnes.2010.11.1.2.1

An investigation of commercialized and commodified world music, as it existed in 2010, using industry data as well as looking at ethnomusicological criticisms. Data was also culled from an on-line forum, with commentaries on my inaugural professorial... Read More about World Music: Whose Music and Whose World?.

Rebranding Korea: Creating a New Old Music (2010)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2010). Rebranding Korea: Creating a New Old Music. In L. Kendall (Ed.), Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity (195-215). University of Hawai'i Press

An exploration of the development of kugak fusion, a genre of music blending Korean traditional and Western musical elements that effectively creates a commodified and commercial product for contemporary Koreans.