Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies

Mona Bhan is Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, USA. She has authored Counterinsurgency, Development, and the Politics of Identity: From Warfare to Welfare? (Routledge, 2014); co-authored Climate Without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene (with A. Bauer, 2018); and co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (with H. Duschinski, A. Zia, and C. Mahmood, 2018). Bhan is on the editorial board of Cultural Anthropology, Critical Disaster Studies and AGITATE. Her writings and interviews have appeared in various forums, including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Scholars Circle, CGTN, Indus TV, TRT, and Open Democracy.Haley Duschinski is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University, USA. She is a legal and political anthropologist with research specializations in law and society; violence, war, and power; human rights and international justice; and militarization and impunity. She co-edited Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (with M. Bhan, A. Zia, and C. Mahmood, 2018) as well as special issues of Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2018), Critique of Anthropology (2020), and Himalaya (2020). She has published her research in Social & Legal Studies, Political & Legal Anthropology Review, Cultural Studies, Race & Class, Memory Studies, Anthropology Today, Interventions, and Anthropological Quarterly, among others.Deepti Misri is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is the author of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India (2014) and the co-editor of a special issue on “Protest” in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly (2018). Her recent scholarship has focused on visual culture, gender, disability, and militarization in Kashmir and appeared in the journals Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Biography, and Public Culture.

"This crucial, timely volume not only explicates the political situation of Kashmir; it offers a paradigm-shifting example of place as relational praxis. From the critique of area studies and state-centric analytics to the attention to the ethics of knowledge production, the editors and contributors make a trenchant case for why Kashmir both illuminates and connects with numerous other liberation movements around the world. As such, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies is a brilliant envisioning of scholarship as solidarity that draws together and transforms indigenous, decolonial, intersectional and transnational thought."- Jasbir K. Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; author of 'Terrorist Assemblages' and 'The Right to Maim.'"This pathbreaking interdisciplinary volume – grounded in feminist principles that are at once anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-caste – brilliantly speaks to the urgency of self-determination for Kashmir. Challenging statist and area studies frameworks that typically privilege international relations and security studies, this rich collection features crucial epistemological interventions that enable the decolonial knowledge production necessary for political liberation – the best in Critical Kashmir Studies."- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Anthropology at Wesleyan University; author of 'Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.'"This handbook is a vital intellectual contribution to Kashmir studies. It provides essential space for the radical thinking, the Kashmiri voices, the feminist approaches, the anti-colonial critiques that have been decisively breaking apart dominant assumptions in mainstream scholarship on Kashmir. It will prompt us to think fundamentally differently about Kashmir, as well as more broadly about colonial occupation, about technologies of repression, about land, place, transnational solidarities, resistance, and more. And at a time when reactionary Hindu nationalism continues to take on more fascistic and Islamophobic forms, this handbook is also a crucial political contribution to knowledge and knowledge production.'- John Reynolds, Associate Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; author of 'Empire, Emergency and International Law.'

• Introduction: Critical Kashmir Studies: Settler Occupations and the Persistence of ResistanceMona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, and Deepti MisriSection I: Territories, Homelands, BordersSection Introduction: Territories, Homelands, BordersAther ZiaChapter 1: Peasant Imaginaries And "Kashmiri Nationalism" Idrees KanthChapter 2: On Naya KashmirSuvir KaulChapter 3: Closing The Frontier? Extraction, Contested Boundaries, and the Greening of Frontier Politics in LadakhAlka SabharwalChapter 4: Kashmiri Sikh Women and Their Experiences with ConflictKhushdeep Kaur MalhotraChapter 5: Disabling KashmirDeepti MisriChapter 6: Hortus Interruptus: A Time for Alegropolitics in KashmirAnanya Jahanara KabirSection II: Militarism, Humanism, OccupationSection Introduction: Militarism, Humanism, OccupationMona BhanChapter 7: Claiming the Streets: Political Resistance among Kashmiri Youth Tahir GanieChapter 8: The Writ of Liberty in a Regime of Permanent EmergencyShrimoyee Nandini Ghosh and Haley DuschinskiChapter 9: Trade, Boundaries and Self-DeterminationAditi SarafChapter 10: Sensory Remembrance: Retelling the 1990s in Downtown SrinagarBhavneet KaurSection III: Memories, Futures, ImaginationsSection Introduction: Memories, Futures, ImaginationsDeepti MisriChapter 11: Dogs of War, War Dogs: The Afterlives of Manto in Two Kashmiri Graphic NovelsAmit BaishyaChapter 12: Cosmopolitanism, Food and Memory: The Lhasa Restaurant Of SrinagarAnisa BhutiaChapter 13: The Country of Privilege: Problematizing The Country Without a Post OfficeHuzaifa Pandit Chapter 14: Mixing Genre, Making Truth Claims: Human Rights Storytelling in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Rakhshan RizwanChapter 15: Cached Resistance: The "Unheard" Narratives of Militancy in KashmirHaris ZargarChapter 16: Playing Cricket in Eidgah: Affective Labor in Kashmiri Childhood(s)Sarbani SharmaSection IV: Religion, History, Politics Section Introduction: Religion, History, Politics Hafsa KanjwalChapter 17: Religious And Political Power in Kashmir: Recollecting the Past for the (Post)Colonial PresentDean AccardiChapter 18: Tehreek History Writers of Kashmir: Reconstructing Memory at the Margins of Postcolonial EmpireMohamad JunaidChapter 19: Remembering Home, Imagining the Future: Changing Meanings of Home Among Kashmiri PanditsAnkur DattaChapter 20: Liberal Silence on Kashmir and the Malleability of Ethics in IndiaGowhar FaziliChapter 21: Territory, Identity, and Islamization in Medieval KashmirRafiq PirzadaChapter 22: Examining Sacred Necropolitics as Subaltern Resistance in India-controlled KashmirUmar Lateef MisgarSection V: Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational SolidaritiesSection Introduction: Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational SolidaritiesHaley DuschinskiChapter 23: Third World Imperialism and Kashmir’s Sovereignty TrapHaley Duschinski and Mona BhanChapter 24: The Forms and Practices of Indian Settler/Colonial Sovereignty in Kashmir Goldie OsuriChapter 25: Sanctioned Ignorance and the Erasure of Solidarity for Indian-Occupied Kashmir Ather ZiaChapter 26: Kashmir, Feminisms, and Global SolidaritiesNitasha KaulChapter 27: Kashmir Diaspora Mobilizations: Towards Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Settler-ColonialismHafsa Kanjwal