Zainab Batul Naqvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6574933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zainab Batul Naqvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zainab Batul |
| FAMILY NAME | Naqvi |
| SIGNATURE | NAQVI Z B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1711-9863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colourism and law in the UK
In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming before the courts, there is no mention of this oppression in the legal framework. Colourism is invisible to the law and courts. "Colour" is included under the protected characteristic of "race" in the equalities and hate crime frameworks, but this is inadequate. This approach, I argue, reinforces…
High Prevalence of Diabetes Among Hospitalized Covid-19 Minority Patients
Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law
The racialising effects of non-marriage in English Law
In this article I argue that the judicial concept of non-marriage racialises and orientalises minoritised communities and their marriages. Applying a critical postcolonial lens, I show how the development of non-marriage has been influenced by colonial racialising attitudes towards marriage. This has led to its application in racist and orientalist ways to demean and other minoritised marriage practices. My analysis of the case law exposes three …
Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK
In this paper, I interrogate the English case law on citizenship deprivation and its effects on the migrant and diasporic communities most affected by it from a critical postcolonial perspective. I explore how it forms part of state responses to national security that are rooted in racist imperialist ideologies. These underpinnings are ignored in law because such responses are supposedly reserved for exceptional circumstances. This has led to a l…
A Wench’s Guide to Surviving a ‘Global’ Pandemic Crisis
Back at the kitchen table
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
A contextualised historical account of changing judicial attitudes to polygamous marriage in the English courts
Whilst much of the literature focuses on debating polygamy as a harmful practice, the purpose of this paper is to consider a different form of harm by exploring judicial responses to this relationship and the women who engage with it. Over the years, the courts have been faced with numerous questions on the recognition and regulation of polygamous marriages. Commencing with an overview of existing literature on polygamous marriage, I situate and …
Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK
In this paper, I interrogate the English case law on citizenship deprivation and its effects on the migrant and diasporic communities most affected by it from a critical postcolonial perspective. I explore how it forms part of state responses to national security that are rooted in racist imperialist ideologies. These underpinnings are ignored in law because such responses are supposedly reserved for exceptional circumstances. This has led to a l…
Back at the kitchen table
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
Colourism and law in the UK
In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming before the courts, there is no mention of this oppression in the legal framework. Colourism is invisible to the law and courts. "Colour" is included under the protected characteristic of "race" in the equalities and hate crime frameworks, but this is inadequate. This approach, I argue, reinforces…
A contextualised historical account of changing judicial attitudes to polygamous marriage in the English courts
Whilst much of the literature focuses on debating polygamy as a harmful practice, the purpose of this paper is to consider a different form of harm by exploring judicial responses to this relationship and the women who engage with it. Over the years, the courts have been faced with numerous questions on the recognition and regulation of polygamous marriages. Commencing with an overview of existing literature on polygamous marriage, I situate and …
Back at the kitchen table
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
A Wench’s Guide to Surviving a ‘Global’ Pandemic Crisis
Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK
In this paper, I interrogate the English case law on citizenship deprivation and its effects on the migrant and diasporic communities most affected by it from a critical postcolonial perspective. I explore how it forms part of state responses to national security that are rooted in racist imperialist ideologies. These underpinnings are ignored in law because such responses are supposedly reserved for exceptional circumstances. This has led to a l…
Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law
The racialising effects of non-marriage in English Law
In this article I argue that the judicial concept of non-marriage racialises and orientalises minoritised communities and their marriages. Applying a critical postcolonial lens, I show how the development of non-marriage has been influenced by colonial racialising attitudes towards marriage. This has led to its application in racist and orientalist ways to demean and other minoritised marriage practices. My analysis of the case law exposes three …
High Prevalence of Diabetes Among Hospitalized Covid-19 Minority Patients
Colourism and law in the UK
In this paper I explore legal and judicial responses toward skin tone and colourism in the UK. I argue that despite incidents involving colourism coming before the courts, there is no mention of this oppression in the legal framework. Colourism is invisible to the law and courts. "Colour" is included under the protected characteristic of "race" in the equalities and hate crime frameworks, but this is inadequate. This approach, I argue, reinforces…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (3 works) · History (2 works)