The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices in order to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building.
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.
Introduction: Critical Kashmir Studies: Settler Occupations and the Persistence of Resistance
Mona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, and Deepti Misri
Section I: Territories, Homelands, Borders
Section Introduction: Territories, Homelands, Borders
Ather Zia
Chapter 1: Peasant Imaginaries And "Kashmiri Nationalism"
Idrees Kanth
Chapter 2: On Naya Kashmir
Suvir Kaul
Chapter 3: Closing The Frontier? Extraction, Contested Boundaries, and the Greening of Frontier Politics in Ladakh
Alka Sabharwal
Chapter 4: Kashmiri Sikh Women and Their Experiences with Conflict
Khushdeep Kaur Malhotra
Chapter 5: Disabling Kashmir
Deepti Misri
Chapter 6: Hortus Interruptus: A Time for Alegropolitics in Kashmir
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Section II: Militarism, Humanism, Occupation
Section Introduction: Militarism, Humanism, Occupation
Mona Bhan
Chapter 7: Claiming the Streets: Political Resistance among Kashmiri Youth
Tahir Ganie
Chapter 8: The Writ of Liberty in a Regime of Permanent Emergency
Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh and Haley Duschinski
Chapter 9: Trade, Boundaries and Self-Determination
Aditi Saraf
Chapter 10: Sensory Remembrance: Retelling the 1990s in Downtown Srinagar
Bhavneet Kaur
Section III: Memories, Futures, Imaginations
Section Introduction: Memories, Futures, Imaginations
Deepti Misri
Chapter 11: Dogs of War, War Dogs: The Afterlives of Manto in Two Kashmiri Graphic Novels
Amit Baishya
Chapter 12: Cosmopolitanism, Food and Memory: The Lhasa Restaurant Of Srinagar
Anisa Bhutia
Chapter 13: The Country of Privilege: Problematizing The Country Without a Post Office
Huzaifa Pandit
Chapter 14: Mixing Genre, Making Truth Claims: Human Rights Storytelling in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Rakhshan Rizwan
Chapter 15: Cached Resistance: The "Unheard" Narratives of Militancy in Kashmir
Haris Zargar
Chapter 16: Playing Cricket in Eidgah: Affective Labor in Kashmiri Childhood(s)
Sarbani Sharma
Section IV: Religion, History, Politics
Section Introduction: Religion, History, Politics
Hafsa Kanjwal
Chapter 17: Religious And Political Power in Kashmir: Recollecting the Past for the (Post)Colonial Present
Dean Accardi
Chapter 18: Tehreek History Writers of Kashmir: Reconstructing Memory at the Margins of Postcolonial Empire
Mohamad Junaid
Chapter 19: Remembering Home, Imagining the Future: Changing Meanings of Home Among Kashmiri Pandits
Ankur Datta
Chapter 20: Liberal Silence on Kashmir and the Malleability of Ethics in India
Gowhar Fazili
Chapter 21: Territory, Identity, and Islamization in Medieval Kashmir
Rafiq Pirzada
Chapter 22: Examining Sacred Necropolitics as Subaltern Resistance in India-controlled Kashmir
Umar Lateef Misgar
Section V: Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational Solidarities
Section Introduction: Armed Conflict, Global War, Transnational Solidarities
Haley Duschinski
Chapter 23: Third World Imperialism and Kashmir's Sovereignty Trap
Haley Duschinski and Mona Bhan
Chapter 24: The Forms and Practices of Indian Settler/Colonial Sovereignty in Kashmir
Goldie Osuri
Chapter 25: Sanctioned Ignorance and the Erasure of Solidarity for Indian-Occupied Kashmir
Ather Zia
Chapter 26: Kashmir, Feminisms, and Global Solidarities
Nitasha Kaul
Chapter 27: Kashmir Diaspora Mobilizations: Towards Transnational Solidarity in an Age of Settler-Colonialism
Hafsa Kanjwal