Resisting Occupation in Kashmir / edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duschinski, Haley, editor.

Bhan, Mona, editor.

Zia, Ather, editor.

Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley, editor.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic conflict--India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Ethnic conflict.

Insurgency--India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Insurgency.

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Ethnic relations.

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government--21st century.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 302 pages).

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The last decade has been a transformative period in Kashmir, the contested, densely militarized border territory located in the Himalayan mountains between India and Pakistan. Suppressed and unheard, Kashmiri political aspirations were subordinated to larger geopolitical concerns--by opposing governments laying claim to Kashmir, by security experts promoting bilateral peace settlements in the region, and by academic researchers studying the conflict. But since 2008, Kashmiris who grew up in the midst of armed insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare have been deploying new strategies for challenging India's state and military apparatus and projecting their legal and political claims for freedom from Indian rule to global audiences. This book analyzes the social and legal logic of India's occupation of Kashmir in relation to colonialism, militarization, power, democracy, and sovereignty."--Publisher's description

Contents:

"Rebels of the streets" : violence, protest, and freedom in Kashmir / Mona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, and Ather Zia

Contesting the law, contesting the state : jurisdictional authority of the Majlis-e-Mushawarat in Kashmir / Haley Duschinski and Bruce Hoffman

In search of the aryan seed / Mona Bhan

The killable Kashmiri body : the life and execution of Afzal Guru / Ather Zia

From "terrorist" to "terrorized" : how trauma became the language of suffering in Kashmir / Saiba Varma

Sexual crimes and the struggle for justice in Kashmir / Seema Kazi

Police subjectivity in occupied Kashmir : reflections on an account of a police officer / Gowhar Fazili

The contingencies of everyday life in Azad Jammu and Kashmir / Ershad Mahmud

Interrogating the ordinary : everyday politics and the struggle for Azadi in Kashmir / Farrukh Faheem

Epitaphs as counterhistories : martyrdom, commemoration, and the work of graveyards in Kashmir / Mohamad Junaid

Perturbations of violence in Kashmir / Cynthia Mahmood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed 20 October 2025).

ISBN:

9780812294965

0812294963

OCLC:

1029605483