The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination. In doing so, the handbook situates Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship within global scholarly conversations on nationalism, sovereignty, indigenous movements, human rights, and international law.
The handbook is organized into the following five parts
Territories, Homelands, Borders
Militarism, Humanism, Occupation
Memories, Futures, Imaginations
Religion, History, Politics
Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational Solidarities
A comprehensive reference work documenting and consolidating the growing Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship, this handbook will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, political science, cultural studies, legal and sociolegal studies, sociology, history, critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and feminist studies.
Author(s): Mona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, Deepti Misri
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 422
City: London
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Critical Kashmir Studies: Settler Occupations and the Persistence of Resistance
Section I Territories, Homelands, Borders
1 Peasant Imaginaries and “Kashmiri Nationalism”
2 On Naya Kashmir
3 Closing the Frontier? Extraction, Contested Boundaries, and the Greening of Frontier Politics in Ladakh
4 Kashmiri Sikh Women and Their Experiences With Conflict
5 Disabling Kashmir
6 Hortus Interruptus: A Time for Alegropolitics in Kashmir
Section II Militarism, Humanitarianism, Occupation
7 Claiming the Streets: Political Resistance Among Kashmiri Youth
8 The Writ of Liberty in the Courts of Kashmir
9 Trade, Boundaries, and Self-Determination
10 Sensory Remembrance: Retelling the 1990s in Downtown Srinagar
Section III Memories, Futures, Imaginations
11 Dogs of War, War Dogs: The Afterlives of Manto in Two Kashmiri Graphic Novels
12 Cosmopolitanism, Food, and Memory: The Lhasa Restaurant of Srinagar
13 The Country of Privilege: Problematizing the Country Without a Post Office
14 Mixing Genre, Making Truth Claims: Human Rights Storytelling in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
15 Cached Resistance: The “Unheard” Narratives of Militancy in Kashmir
16 Playing Cricket in Eidgah: Affective Labor in Kashmiri Childhood(s)
Section IV Religion, History, Politics
17 Religious and Political Power in Kashmir: Recollecting the Past for the (Post)colonial Present
18 Tehreek History Writers of Kashmir: Reconstructing Memory at the Margins of Postcolonial Empire
19 Remembering Home, Imagining the Future: Changing Meanings of Home Among Kashmiri Pandits
20 Liberal Silence on Kashmir and the Malleability of Ethics in India
21 Territory, Identity, and Islamization in Medieval Kashmir
22 Examining Sacred Necropolitics as Popular Resistance in India-Controlled Kashmir
Section V Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational Solidarities
23 Third World Imperialism and Kashmir’s Sovereignty Trap
24 The Forms and Practices of Indian Settler/Colonial Sovereignty in Kashmir
25 Sanctioned Ignorance and the Crisis of Solidarity for Kashmir
26 Kashmir, Feminisms, and Global Solidarities
27 Kashmir Diaspora Mobilizations: Toward Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Settler Colonialism
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