Patrick Hanafin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1634693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Hanafin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanafin |
| SIGNATURE | HANAFIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
As Nobody I was Sovereign’: Reading Derrida Reading Blanchot
In Session 7 (26 February 2003) of The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II, Jacques Derrida engages again with Maurice Blanchot, two days after the latter’s cremation. This intervention also appears as a post-face to Derrida’s 2003 edition of Parages, his collection of essays devoted to the work of Blanchot. In this article, I examine Derrida’s affinity to the work of Blanchot, as the one whose work ‘stood watch over and around what matters to me,…
Rights, bioconstitutionalism and the politics of reproductive citizenship in Italy
The introduction of a restrictive law on assisted reproduction in Italy in 2004 sees the privileging of a conservative model of family relations and a patriarchal conception of society. This law excludes many individuals from full reproductive citizenship. The 2004 Act excludes gay couples, single people and people who are carriers of genetically inherited conditions from access to assisted reproductive technologies. This article examines the man…
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
On reading Transpositions: A response to Rosi Braidotti's Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics
On pausing and refusing: Reflections on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
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Deleuze and Law
Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on
Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures
Refusing disembodiment: Abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal ide…
Voicing Embodiment, Relating Difference: Towards a Relational Legal Subjectivity
The concept of legal rights has brought recognition to several marginalized groups, but that legal recognition has not always improved the material position of such groups. The author suggests a symbolic re-appropriation of law that acknowledges the existence of an imagined control. She refers to the works of Adriana Cavarero and Lia Cigarini, who describe a space of relational politics, based on the embodied self capable of acting, speaking and …
Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary Italy
The Writer's Refusal and Law's Malady
In this piece I want to (re)pose the relation of writing to law and politics, by interrogating the sense of a writing which is simultaneously an unwriting or undoing of legal and political discourse through Maurice Blanchot's involvement in the movement against the French colonial war in Algeria and, in particular, his framing of the Declaration of the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War in 1960. The piece analyses how the sense of the e…
Introduction: On Writing: Law and Literature
Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution
Rewriting Desire: The Construction of Sexual Identity in Literary and Legal Discourse in Postcolonial Ireland
The failure of the legal imaginary to reflect sexual difference in the opening decades of the postcolonial Irish state led to what in psychoanalytical terms may be described as the creation of socially abjected groups. Lesbians and gay men were numbered among such groups. The failure of official discourse to contemplate sexual difference as an integral part of Irish national identity was a residue of the Irish colonial experi ence. The associatio…
Last rites or rights at last: The development of a right to die in Irish constitutional law
Death has been viewed in cultural terms in Ireland more as rite than right. This view is rooted in deontological ideas about the intrinsic value of life. The sanctity-of-life model has been the dominant model in Irish legal discourse on the topic of the right to life. This model rather than being a flexible one, adapting to the needs of an evolving societal framework, is absolutist. It finds expression in the Irish Constitution of 1937 with its h…
Refusing disembodiment: Abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal ide…
Voicing Embodiment, Relating Difference: Towards a Relational Legal Subjectivity
The concept of legal rights has brought recognition to several marginalized groups, but that legal recognition has not always improved the material position of such groups. The author suggests a symbolic re-appropriation of law that acknowledges the existence of an imagined control. She refers to the works of Adriana Cavarero and Lia Cigarini, who describe a space of relational politics, based on the embodied self capable of acting, speaking and …
Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary Italy
Rights, bioconstitutionalism and the politics of reproductive citizenship in Italy
The introduction of a restrictive law on assisted reproduction in Italy in 2004 sees the privileging of a conservative model of family relations and a patriarchal conception of society. This law excludes many individuals from full reproductive citizenship. The 2004 Act excludes gay couples, single people and people who are carriers of genetically inherited conditions from access to assisted reproductive technologies. This article examines the man…
Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution
Rewriting Desire: The Construction of Sexual Identity in Literary and Legal Discourse in Postcolonial Ireland
The failure of the legal imaginary to reflect sexual difference in the opening decades of the postcolonial Irish state led to what in psychoanalytical terms may be described as the creation of socially abjected groups. Lesbians and gay men were numbered among such groups. The failure of official discourse to contemplate sexual difference as an integral part of Irish national identity was a residue of the Irish colonial experi ence. The associatio…
Last rites or rights at last: The development of a right to die in Irish constitutional law
Death has been viewed in cultural terms in Ireland more as rite than right. This view is rooted in deontological ideas about the intrinsic value of life. The sanctity-of-life model has been the dominant model in Irish legal discourse on the topic of the right to life. This model rather than being a flexible one, adapting to the needs of an evolving societal framework, is absolutist. It finds expression in the Irish Constitution of 1937 with its h…
Rewriting Desire: The Construction of Sexual Identity in Literary and Legal Discourse in Postcolonial Ireland
The failure of the legal imaginary to reflect sexual difference in the opening decades of the postcolonial Irish state led to what in psychoanalytical terms may be described as the creation of socially abjected groups. Lesbians and gay men were numbered among such groups. The failure of official discourse to contemplate sexual difference as an integral part of Irish national identity was a residue of the Irish colonial experi ence. The associatio…
Mothers, Maidens and the Myth of Origins in the Irish Constitution
The Writer's Refusal and Law's Malady
In this piece I want to (re)pose the relation of writing to law and politics, by interrogating the sense of a writing which is simultaneously an unwriting or undoing of legal and political discourse through Maurice Blanchot's involvement in the movement against the French colonial war in Algeria and, in particular, his framing of the Declaration of the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War in 1960. The piece analyses how the sense of the e…
Introduction: On Writing: Law and Literature
Gender, citizenship and human reproduction in contemporary Italy
Voicing Embodiment, Relating Difference: Towards a Relational Legal Subjectivity
The concept of legal rights has brought recognition to several marginalized groups, but that legal recognition has not always improved the material position of such groups. The author suggests a symbolic re-appropriation of law that acknowledges the existence of an imagined control. She refers to the works of Adriana Cavarero and Lia Cigarini, who describe a space of relational politics, based on the embodied self capable of acting, speaking and …
Deleuze and Law
Drawing upon and extending the theoretical insights of Deleuze, Foucault and Agamben, this volume considers the concept of life as it operates in law, politics and contemporary culture. It focuses on
Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures
Refusing disembodiment: Abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom. The Act itself contains traces of both Roman Catholic and liberal pluralist worldviews and has, since its introduction, been the site of conflict over competing notions of citizenship and legal ide…
On reading Transpositions: A response to Rosi Braidotti's Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics
On pausing and refusing: Reflections on Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
As Nobody I was Sovereign’: Reading Derrida Reading Blanchot
In Session 7 (26 February 2003) of The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II, Jacques Derrida engages again with Maurice Blanchot, two days after the latter’s cremation. This intervention also appears as a post-face to Derrida’s 2003 edition of Parages, his collection of essays devoted to the work of Blanchot. In this article, I examine Derrida’s affinity to the work of Blanchot, as the one whose work ‘stood watch over and around what matters to me,…
Rights, bioconstitutionalism and the politics of reproductive citizenship in Italy
The introduction of a restrictive law on assisted reproduction in Italy in 2004 sees the privileging of a conservative model of family relations and a patriarchal conception of society. This law excludes many individuals from full reproductive citizenship. The 2004 Act excludes gay couples, single people and people who are carriers of genetically inherited conditions from access to assisted reproductive technologies. This article examines the man…
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