Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif

Discipline(s) : Anthropologie

Terrain(s) : Malaisie

Nurul joins EHESS from across the Atlantic, where she recently held a joint appointment as a Visiting Fellow in the Program on Law & Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School, and an Evans Fellow on Southeast Asia in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Nurul completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at Cambridge in 2018, before beginning her postdoctoral career in Leiden at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), and in Paris at the Collège d’Études Mondiales. 

At CASE, Nurul will work on a project called “Intimacy on the Move: Cross-Border Marriage & Migration at the Malaysian-Thai Frontier”, in which she will research Thai female migrants’ search for “romantic fate” (jodoh) and economic fortune (rezeki) in Malaysia. This will build on her existing work on intimacy, marriage and polygamy in contemporary Malaysia that will appear in her upcoming monograph based on her doctoral thesis, entitled “Halal Intimacy: Love, Marriage & Polygyny in Contemporary Malaysia”. 

Nurul is very much looking forward to an exciting year of learning and sharing with everyone at CASE! 

Projets de recherche

• Nikah Express: Polygyny, Marriage-Making & the State at the Malaysian-Thai Border - KITLV (2018)
• Justice & Jealousy in Malay Polygamy - IIAS (2018-9)
• Intimacy, Sorcery, Islam & the State in Contemporary Malaysia - FMSH (2019)

Bibliographie

• 2018: “The Unhappy Polygamist: Desire & (Dis)satisfaction in Malay Polygamy”, in Friendship & Happiness: A Global Perspective, eds. T. Delaney & T. Madigan, Vernon Press, Wilmington, pp. 163-169.
• 2019: “The Changing Face of Polygamy in Contemporary Malaysia”, Woolf Institute Blog, 01 February. https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-changing-face-of-polygamy-in-contemporary-malaysia
•  “Loose Laws & Questionable Morals: Moral Policing & Eloped Marriages in Contemporary Malaysia”, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East & the Islamic World, Special Issue on Gender & Judging, edited by Monika Lindbekk & Susanne Dahlgren. Currently under peer-review.
• Forthcoming: “Intimacy Under Surveillance: Illicit Sexuality, Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia”, Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East & the Muslim World, Special Issue on Gender & Judging, edited by Monika Lindbekk & Susanne Dahlgren.
• In preparation: Halal Intimacy: Love, Marriage, and Polygyny in Contemporary Malaysia, Berghahn Books.