Description |
1 online resource |
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Decolonizing Feminisms |
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Decolonizing feminisms.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) keep public attention focused on the 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiri men disappeared by the Indian government forces since 1989. Surrounded by Indian troops, international photojournalists, and curious onlookers, the APDP activists cry, lament, and sing while holding photos and files documenting the lives of their disappeared loved ones. In this radical departure from traditionally private rituals of mourning, they create a spectacle of mourning that combats the government's threatening silence about the fates of their sons, husbands, and fathers.0Drawn from Ather Zia's ten years of engagement with the APDP as an anthropologist and fellow Kashmiri activist, 'Resisting Disappearance' follows mothers and "half-widows" as they step boldly into courts, military camps, and morgues in search of their disappeared kin. Through an amalgam of ethnography, poetry, and photography, Zia illuminates how dynamics of gender and trauma in Kashmir have been transformed in the face of South Asia's longest-running conflict, providing profound insight into how Kashmiri women and men nurture a politics of resistance while facing increasing military violence under India |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Muslim women -- Political activity -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Women political activists -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Disappeared persons -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Human rights -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Civil-military relations -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Military government -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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Autonomy and independence movements
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Civil-military relations
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Disappeared persons
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Human rights
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Military government
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Muslim women -- Political activity
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Women political activists
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Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
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India -- Jammu and Kashmir
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2019016497 |
ISBN |
9780295745008 |
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0295745002 |
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0295744987 |
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9780295744988 |
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