The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, August). The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought. Paper presented at The New Marxist Writing in International Law, City University London

This project reassesses various Marxist approaches to human rights, arguing for a return to the 'negative hypothesis' – one in which the liberal panacea of rights is eschewed in favour of various forms of syndicated action. It begins with Marx and En... Read More about The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought.

Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, June). Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis. Paper presented at Neoliberal Legality Workshop, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

This paper briefly elaborates three specific movements in the author's general research of neoliberal legality: (1) that of the transformative potential in analysing the new types of fetishism of neoliberal legal form; (2) the insurrectionary politic... Read More about Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis.

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.

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.

Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta? (2013)
Journal Article
Zene, C. (2013). Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?. Lares (Firenze. Testo stampato), LXXIX(1), 35-44

This reflection on ‘juridical rules and paradigms’ in Pigliaru, prompted by Pietro Clemente and inspired by the reading of Gaetano Riccardo’s article, allows me to return to arguments I have discussed elsewhere. In my view, one of the recurrent probl... Read More about Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?.