Dr Sabrina Gilani

Lecturer, University of Sussex

Interests

Posthumanism, new materialism and agential realism

Background

I am concurrently working on two different research areas that have considerable conceptual and theoretical overlap. In the first instance, I use critical legal geography to analyse minority protection in modern liberal societies, particularly as it relates to indigenous groups like the First Nations' communities in Canada and the Pakhtun tribal people of Pakistan. My second area of research uses critical posthumanism and new materialism as an analytical lenses through which to rethink criminal law concepts. In particular, I am interested in looking at how artificial intelligence, and biotechnologies might shape the criminal legal discourse of the future and compel us to reorganise the legal structuring of criminal offences such as homicide and assault. I am interested in rethinking law from a corporeal and materialist perspective, with a focus on how the law can be made to recognise and account for the agency of things and objects.

Contact

S.Gilani@sussex.ac.uk

@gilani_sabrina