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CATEGORIES:Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars
SUMMARY:Religious freedom and public order: fundamental-ri
 ghts lawfare and the construction of majoritarian 
 national identities in Pakistan and Malaysia - Dr 
 Matthew Nelson\, SOAS
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UID:TALK109168AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/109168
DESCRIPTION:Building on constructivist theories concerning nat
 ional identity formation as well as institutionali
 st theories regarding the regulatory power of law 
 (here\, constitutional and international human-rig
 hts laws protecting religious freedom ‘subject to’
  politically shifting claims regarding public orde
 r)\, this paper examines a pattern of ‘religious’ 
 national identity formation in Muslim-majority Pak
 istan and Malaysia. Specifically\, it illuminates 
 a pattern of intra-religious boundary-formation gr
 ounded in what I call fundamental-rights lawfare—a
  pattern in which majoritarian political actors ur
 ge senior judges to operationalize existing religi
 ous-freedom provisions in ways that help to ‘secur
 itize’ certain self-identifying co-religionists as
  provocative ‘heretics’ who\, posing a risk to ‘pu
 blic order’\, lie outside the boundaries of each c
 ountry’s majoritarian constitutional community.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 Wes
 t Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DT
CONTACT:Barbara Roe
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