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Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Skye Arundhati, Author.
- Scott, Izabella, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Border security.
- Electronic surveillance.
- Geopolitics.
- Military art and science.
- Natural resources.
- Postcolonialism.
- Territory, National.
- Border Regimes.
- Genre:
- Essays
- Pictures
- Essay.
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], MACK, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Pleasure Gardens is an urgent two-part project that investigates the military occupation, land appropriation, and communication blackouts in Kashmir, a region whose heavily militarized borders have frequently been a site of conflict between India and Pakistan. Taking a 213-day blackout in 2019 as its starting point, the project aims to detail the reasoning behind these blockades, seeking a new register of writing and image that makes visible the conditions of occupation and the protracted violence of the blackout. In the book's first part, Scott and Thomas bring together hundreds of sources, filling in the gaps from Srinagar to the remote Himalayan valleys along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, to create a unique log of fifteen days under siege, during which Kashmiri constitutional rights were revoked, the state partitioned, and stripped of its special statehood. In the second part, the authors examine Kashmir's occupied territories and the complex ways in which India's infrastructure of surveillance and occupation is borrowed from Israel's occupation of Palestine. This remarkable publication offers a crucial exploration of blackouts, their aftermath, and the twisted logic of crisis on which they rely."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
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