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Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013) (2014)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2014). Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013). Human Rights Law Review, 14(2), 386-390. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngu002

One important conclusion that the two co-editors make in a fairly straightforward manner is that they are ultimately sceptical of whether the Commonwealth, as an intergovernmental organisation, could play a positive role in the future (p. 538). ‘Here... Read More about Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013).

On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, July). On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form. Paper presented at Law, Religion and LGBT Rights, Brunel Law School, Brunel University

The proposition of this brief intervention is threefold. Firstly, it attempts to underscore the value of historical analyses of Islamic law and the past Muslim polities for our present-day understanding of the various Muslim social and legal discours... Read More about On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form.

Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention (2013)
Journal Article
Keenan, S. (2013). Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention. Modern Law Review, 76(3), 464-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12021

This article analyses two cases brought by aboriginal Australians against the Australian government acquisition of long leases of their land under the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007. These leases are conspicuous, particularly... Read More about Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention.

Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma (2013)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2013). Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma. Public Culture, 25(1 69), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890432

Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, i... Read More about Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma.

Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

An Interstice of Justice?: Muslim Experiences of Sexual and Gender Diversity between Human Rights Law and Islamic Legal Tradition (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2012). An Interstice of Justice?: Muslim Experiences of Sexual and Gender Diversity between Human Rights Law and Islamic Legal Tradition. In R. Holzhacker, & K. Lahey (Eds.), Global Rights, Global Movements: International Law, Transnational Activism, and the Critical Role of Civil Society (121-152). New York University Press

This chapter critically assesses some historical and contemporary positions of gender-variant and sexually diverse members of Muslim communities and polities, primarily through the disciplinary lenses of international human rights law and Islamic law... Read More about An Interstice of Justice?: Muslim Experiences of Sexual and Gender Diversity between Human Rights Law and Islamic Legal Tradition.

Cash transfer film (2012)
Digital Artefact
Bhatt, J. (2012). Cash transfer film. [YouTube video]

This short (12 minute) video summarizes early results of an experimental unconditional cash transfer project in Madhya Pradesh, India, conducted by SEWA - Self Employed Women's Association of India - with the assistance of SOAS Professor Guy Standing... Read More about Cash transfer film.

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.

The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2012). The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. In A. Kam-Tuck Yip, & P. Nynäs (Eds.), Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life (17-35). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605029-2

This chapter presents a comparative critique of the two hegemonic discourses which challenge the social integrity and agency of individuals and communities in Pakistan and Indonesia who are outside the dominant sexual/gender matrices and politics. Th... Read More about The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms.

The precariat: from denizens to citizens? (2012)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2012). The precariat: from denizens to citizens?. Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, 44(4), 588-608. https://doi.org/10.1057/pol.2012.15

Liberalized markets promoted by the Washington Consensus under globalization have resulted in a global class structure in which new groups have emerged, including a precariat consisting of millions of people subject to flexible, insecure labor relati... Read More about The precariat: from denizens to citizens?.