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Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy (2017)
Book
Collins, P., & Tripp, C. (Eds.). (2017). Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266076.001.0001

This book seeks to re-evaluate the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868–1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist and British civil servant. In 12 chapters, written by a number of international scholars, Iraqi and Britis... Read More about Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy.

(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon (2017)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2017). (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon. Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, 3(1), 59-77

This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state... Read More about (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon.

Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967 (2016)
Journal Article
Tsourapas, G. (2016). Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 43(3), 324-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2015.1102708

The Egyptian state’s policy of dispatching trained Egyptian professionals, primarily educational staff, across the Arab world rarely features in analyses of Egypt’s foreign policy under Gamal Abdel Nasser. This article relies primarily on newly decla... Read More about Nasser's Educators and Agitators across al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Migration, 1952-1967.

Middle East (2016)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2016). Middle East. In E. J. Blum (Ed.), America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History (678-682). Charles Scribner’s Sons

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. (2015)
Book
Chang, B.-Y. (2015). Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765662

In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appe... Read More about Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan..

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Presented at Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London

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

Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, April). Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. Paper presented at 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

This paper presents a critical ethnographic account of Pakistani khwajasara, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore in 2011. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijra, are Pakistani gender-variant subject position... Read More about Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan.

Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities (2013)
Journal Article
Keenan, S. (2013). Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 64(3), 299-316. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v64i3.352

This article explores some of the ways in which law appropriates subversive identities. Drawing on work from geographical, feminist and critical race approaches to property, I put forward an understanding of property as a relation of belonging ‘held... Read More about Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities.

Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, February). Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. Paper presented at International Law and the Periphery Conference, American University in Cairo

This study presents a critical legal ethnography of Pakistani khwajasara, located at the very periphery of international law yet at the centre of global legal crisis. Khwajasara, known elsewhere as hijra, are Pakistani gender variant subject position... Read More about Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan.

(Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, May). (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented at Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections, SOAS Spring Queer Legal Theory Workshop, SOAS, University of London

This paper comparatively examines some present-day perceptions of the concepts of law and justice by sexually- and/or gender-variant Muslim communities, living in Muslim-majority states. Firstly, it analyses their encounters with two hegemonic identi... Read More about (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse.

Remittances (2011)
Book Chapter
Lindley, A. (2011). Remittances. In A. Betts (Ed.), Global Migration Governance. Oxford University Press

Mut zur Integration! Plädoyer für eine partizipative Demokratie [Courage for Integration! Pleading for a Participative Democracy] (2008)
Book Chapter
Fathollah-Nejad, A. (2008). Mut zur Integration! Plädoyer für eine partizipative Demokratie [Courage for Integration! Pleading for a Participative Democracy]. In K. Kissau, M. Kortmann, K. Tietze, C. Cordier, H. Aksünger, & E. Musch (Eds.), Migration steuern oder verwalten? Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich (121-145). University of Münster

Gender, Diaporas and Post Cold war Conflict (2007)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2007). Gender, Diaporas and Post Cold war Conflict. In H. Smith, & P. Stares (Eds.), Diasporas in Conflict: Peace-Makers or Peace Wreckers? (39-62). United Nations University Press