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Organized by: SFU-Exeter Accelerated Law Program — https://www.eventbrite.com/o/121701494542Join Dr. Hasret Cetinkaya for the second event in her featured event series with CCMS!
Across Europe, escalating ‘remigration’ discourses have prompted a new question for critical socio-legal inquiry: how is plural belonging produced, sustained, and felt by racialised citizens within hostile governance landscapes? This talk outlines the foundational stages of a new programme of research investigating how restrictive migration governance shapes the lived experiences of ‘home’ across two generations of post-migrants in Denmark. Even after the acquisition of formal citizenship, legal membership appears increasingly conditional for racialised minorities. By examining the Kurdish diaspora’s practices of posthumous repatriation and transnational burial, this research positions death and mourning as a central conceptual problem for how we citizenship and belonging today. These cross-border practices expose the profound limits of formal legal inclusion, revealing how racialised communities collectively negotiate, refuse, and bypass state-centric structures of belonging.
To interrogate the friction between restrictive legal technologies and diasporic burial desires, the project maps a critical legal genealogy against the institutional gaps of the official state archive. In order to capture these deeply affective and often unrecorded experiences, the broader research design proposes an innovative critical-visual methodology pairing archival analysis with participatory feminist photo-elicitation interviews. Ultimately, this seminar uses the initial conceptual and contextual stages of this research to invite dialogue on how studying transnational mourning generates a vital new framework for theorising plural belonging in a common world.
About the Speaker
Dr Hasret Cetinkaya is a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and Gender at Manchester Law School, The Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work is located at the intersection of critical legal thinking, de/postcolonial thought, and gender studies, as she rethinks questions of power, agency, and ethics in relation to human rights and the law. Hasret is the author of ‘Honour’ and Human Rights: Namus, Ethical Life, and Legal Subjectivity (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) which addresses the interplay between international human rights discourses on ‘honour’ and embodied and affective experiences of namûs among Kurdish subjects across three field sites, spanning from the home to the diaspora. She is currently in the early stages of developing a new project that examines how practices of posthumous repatriation offer us a provocative window through which to explore debates around remigration, racial melancholia and anti-imperial modes of belonging. Before joining Manchester Law School, Hasret was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE Gender researching vernacular rights cultures and the Rojava Revolution. She holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights (University of Galway).
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Harbour Centre, 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N6, CA, Canada
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