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SUMMARY:Religious freedom and public order: fundamental-rights lawfare and
  the construction of majoritarian national identities in Pakistan and Mala
 ysia - Dr Matthew Nelson\, SOAS
DTSTART:20181114T170000Z
DTEND:20181114T180000Z
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:Building on constructivist theories concerning national identi
 ty formation as well as institutionalist theories regarding the regulatory
  power of law (here\, constitutional and international human-rights laws p
 rotecting religious freedom ‘subject to’ politically shifting claims r
 egarding public order)\, this paper examines a pattern of ‘religious’ 
 national identity formation in Muslim-majority Pakistan and Malaysia. Spec
 ifically\, it illuminates a pattern of intra-religious boundary-formation 
 grounded in what I call fundamental-rights lawfare—a pattern in which ma
 joritarian political actors urge senior judges to operationalize existing 
 religious-freedom provisions in ways that help to ‘securitize’ certain
  self-identifying co-religionists as provocative ‘heretics’ who\, posi
 ng a risk to ‘public order’\, lie outside the boundaries of each count
 ry’s majoritarian constitutional community.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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