Zia, Ather

Resisting occupation in Kashmir

by Zia, Ather, Bhan, Mona, Duschinski, Haley

fromEthnography of political violence

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The last decade has been a transformative period in Kashmir, the hotly contested and densely militarized border territory located high in the Himalayan mountains between India and Pakistan. Suppressed and unheard, Kashmiri political aspirations were subordinated to larger geopol…

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

by Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley, Zia, Ather, Bhan, Mona, Duschinski, Haley

0 Type: Book

The last decade has been a transformative period in Kashmir, the hotly contested and densely militarized border territory located high in the Himalayan mountains between India and Pakistan. Suppressed and unheard, Kashmiri political aspirations were subordinated to larger geopol…

Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women's activismin Kashmir

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

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In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Pare…

Resisting disappearance. Military occupation and women's activism in Kashmir

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

0 Type: Book

In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Pare…

Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women's activism in Kashm…

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

0 Type: Book

"In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Par…

Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women's activism in Kashm…

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

0 Type: Book

The politics of mourning -- The politics of democracy -- The killable Kashmiri body -- The politics of visibility -- Enforced disappearance of the other kind -- Militarizing humanitarianism -- Retelling and remembering -- Obliteration and transmutation.

Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women's activism in Kashm…

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

0 Type: Book

In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Pare…

Resisting disappearance: military occupation and women's activism in Kashm…

by Zia, Ather

fromDecolonizing feminisms

0 Type: Book

In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Pare…

Contemporary Kashmir valley is seen in a terminal colonial situation within India. Since the armed movement broke out in 1989, the Indian government has deployed massive number of armed troops and implemented lethal counter-insurgency laws. Human rights groups claim that over 70…