Sabrina Gilani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6564725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina Gilani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilani |
| SIGNATURE | GILANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1420-3848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ethics of Capital Punishment and a Law of Affective Enchantment
This paper re-reads American Appellate and Supreme Court rulings about the constitutionality of execution by electrocution from the perspective of new materialism. Using the case of Provenzano v. Moore, this paper highlights how the existing jurisprudence develops a notion of cruelty that deliberately avoids the sensual and affective dimensions of punishment. Given the profoundly corporeal nature of punishment and even more so capital punishment,…
On the Discursive-Material Enactment of Criminal Violence
This article seeks to challenge the prevailing view that violence is legally actionable because human bodies are capable of experiencing pain, injury, and death. Drawing on literature in the area of new materialism, this article demonstrates how pain, injury, and death are not ontological properties of the flesh-and-bone body, but rather, they are the effects of how violence is made sense-able, knowable, as part of the criminal legal process. Her…
Bionic Bodies, Posthuman Violence and the Disembodied Criminal Subject
This article examines how the so-called disembodied criminal subject is given structure and form through the law of homicide and assault. By analysing how the body is materialised through the criminal law’s enactment of death and injury, this article suggests that the biological positioning of these harms of violence as uncontroversial, natural, and universal conditions of being ‘human’ cannot fully appreciate what makes violence wrongful for us,…
Spacing’ Minority Relations
This article considers the mutually constitutive relationship between law and geography and relates this back to the issue of minority protection and cultural recognition. Introducing a new method of inquiry, spatio-historical analysis, this article argues that a historical study of a legal and political geography can fundamentally enhance a sociolegal analysis of contemporary structures and processes of governance vested with the aim of protecti…
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Delete
In Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents a well-constructed argument in relation to the ever-expanding shift towards digitalising every aspect of our lives. The book unfolds in three stages. First, Mayer-Schönberger sets out to establish how and why our digital age has made it so that ‘forgetting has become the exception, and remembering the default’ (p. 2). He details at length the functions human…
Power and Civil Society in Pakistan
Pakistani society finds itself in a morass because of the mad scramble for power in almost all sectors. This has resulted in extreme structural distortions. The attainment of power is both a means of domination and a recourse to survival. Unequal power relations are historically entrenched and their perpetuation is deepening the crisis. In this text, two experts conduct a dialogue between eminent scholars and social activists, from which emerges …
Z. A. Bhutto's leadership
Bionic Bodies, Posthuman Violence and the Disembodied Criminal Subject
This article examines how the so-called disembodied criminal subject is given structure and form through the law of homicide and assault. By analysing how the body is materialised through the criminal law’s enactment of death and injury, this article suggests that the biological positioning of these harms of violence as uncontroversial, natural, and universal conditions of being ‘human’ cannot fully appreciate what makes violence wrongful for us,…
Spacing’ Minority Relations
This article considers the mutually constitutive relationship between law and geography and relates this back to the issue of minority protection and cultural recognition. Introducing a new method of inquiry, spatio-historical analysis, this article argues that a historical study of a legal and political geography can fundamentally enhance a sociolegal analysis of contemporary structures and processes of governance vested with the aim of protecti…
Z. A. Bhutto's leadership
Power and Civil Society in Pakistan
Pakistani society finds itself in a morass because of the mad scramble for power in almost all sectors. This has resulted in extreme structural distortions. The attainment of power is both a means of domination and a recourse to survival. Unequal power relations are historically entrenched and their perpetuation is deepening the crisis. In this text, two experts conduct a dialogue between eminent scholars and social activists, from which emerges …
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Delete
In Delete: the Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents a well-constructed argument in relation to the ever-expanding shift towards digitalising every aspect of our lives. The book unfolds in three stages. First, Mayer-Schönberger sets out to establish how and why our digital age has made it so that ‘forgetting has become the exception, and remembering the default’ (p. 2). He details at length the functions human…
Spacing’ Minority Relations
This article considers the mutually constitutive relationship between law and geography and relates this back to the issue of minority protection and cultural recognition. Introducing a new method of inquiry, spatio-historical analysis, this article argues that a historical study of a legal and political geography can fundamentally enhance a sociolegal analysis of contemporary structures and processes of governance vested with the aim of protecti…
On the Discursive-Material Enactment of Criminal Violence
This article seeks to challenge the prevailing view that violence is legally actionable because human bodies are capable of experiencing pain, injury, and death. Drawing on literature in the area of new materialism, this article demonstrates how pain, injury, and death are not ontological properties of the flesh-and-bone body, but rather, they are the effects of how violence is made sense-able, knowable, as part of the criminal legal process. Her…
Bionic Bodies, Posthuman Violence and the Disembodied Criminal Subject
This article examines how the so-called disembodied criminal subject is given structure and form through the law of homicide and assault. By analysing how the body is materialised through the criminal law’s enactment of death and injury, this article suggests that the biological positioning of these harms of violence as uncontroversial, natural, and universal conditions of being ‘human’ cannot fully appreciate what makes violence wrongful for us,…
The Ethics of Capital Punishment and a Law of Affective Enchantment
This paper re-reads American Appellate and Supreme Court rulings about the constitutionality of execution by electrocution from the perspective of new materialism. Using the case of Provenzano v. Moore, this paper highlights how the existing jurisprudence develops a notion of cruelty that deliberately avoids the sensual and affective dimensions of punishment. Given the profoundly corporeal nature of punishment and even more so capital punishment,…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Criminal law (2 works)