The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexities of regional state formations, national power assertions and geopolitical competitions. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook examine diverse people's struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability in relation to the colonial-era state consolidations, postcolonial military occupations, interstate wars, intrastate armed conflicts and cold war and post-cold war politics that have shaped and transformed social and political identities in the region. Contributors chart out varied and bold new directions by attending to local constellations of situated knowledges and practices through which people living in different parts of the disputed region make sense of the conditions and contingencies of their political lives. The handbook further initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship and undermined the pursuit of shared intellectual and political projects across physical and epistemological boundaries.

Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute Examines diverse people's struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability Initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship

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Haley Duschinski is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture at Ohio University, USA.

Mona Bhan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asia at Syracuse University, USA.

Cabeiri deBergh Robinson is Associate Professor of International Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington, USA.

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The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and transregional perspective on the Kashmir dispute. Spanning South and Central Asia, Kashmir has been at the center of geopolitical conflicts and rivalries among India, Pakistan and China for decades, with members of heterogeneous local communities negotiating the complexities of regional state formations, national power assertions and geopolitical competitions. Taken together, the chapters in this handbook examine diverse people s struggles to establish processes of democratic accountability in relation to the colonial-era state consolidations, postcolonial military occupations, interstate wars, intrastate armed conflicts and cold war and post-cold war politics that have shaped and transformed social and political identities in the region. Contributors chart out varied and bold new directions by attending to local constellations of situated knowledges and practices through which people living in different parts of the disputed region make sense of the conditions and contingencies of their political lives. The handbook further initiates a dialogue on the ways in which state power and border regimes have shaped scholarship and undermined the pursuit of shared intellectual and political projects across physical and epistemological boundaries.

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Chapter 1: New Directions in Kashmir Studies: Unsettling State Power, Military Violence, and Border Regimes Across Kashmir.- Part I: The Princely State and the End of Empire.- Chapter 2: Locating Jammu and Kashmir.- Chapter 3: Locating Azad Kashmir.- Chapter 4: Locating Gilgit-Baltistan.- Part II: Unequal Sovereignties and Contestations for Power Across Kashmir.- Chapter 5: Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan: Politics of Power Sharing and Status Quo.- Chapter 6: Power, Parties and Politics in the Liminal Spaces of Gilgit-Baltistan.- Chapter 7: Peoples' Struggle for Participatory Governance in Gilgit-Baltistan.- Chapter 8: Democracy: Making Sense of Grassroots Politics in Kashmir.- Chapter 9: From Incorporation to Elimination: Interlocution as an Apparatus of Occupation in Kashmir.- Part III: Kashmir in Transnational Context and International Law from Below.- Chapter 10: International Law and the Kashmir Dispute: A Critical Reflection.- Chapter 11: Critical Interventions: Human Rights and International Justice in Kashmir.- Chapter 12: Creating Archives of Memory: The Landscapes of Human Rights Documentation in Kashmir.- Chapter 13: Grieving Kashmir: Counter-memory, Accountability and A People's Tribunal.- Chapter 14: British Kashmiri Workers: Solidarity Networks and Dreams for Home and Freedom.- Part IV: Islam, Embodiment, and the Politics of the Human.- Chapter 15: Looking Beyond Human: Animal and the Kashmiri Resistance Movement.- Chapter 16: The Logics of Counterinsurgency Education and Resistance in Thirdspace.- Chapter 17: On Kashmiri Men: Disappearance, Nonbeing, Islam.- Chapter 18: Intrusion into the Intimate: Home and the Gendered Anatomy of Crackdowns in Kashmir.- Chapter 19: Men Had Turned Brutes: Refugees, Recovery, and Rehabilitation Processes in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, 1947-1952.- Part V: Belonging, Borders, and Contested Sovereignties.- Chapter 20: Humanitarian Internationalism and Funding Relief for Refugees from Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan, 1947-1951.- Chapter 21: Sectarianism or Separatism: Iran, Pakistan and the Dynamics of Shia Politics in Kashmir.- Chapter 22: The Blank Space between Nationalisms: Locating the Kashmiri Pandits in Liberal and Hindu Nationalist Politics in Relation to Kashmir and India.- Chapter 23: Making State Space: The Symbolic Reorganization of Borders in the Kashmir Borderland.- Chapter 24: Peace for Kashmir? The (Non-) Politics of Civilian Peacebuilding across the Line of Control.- Chapter 25: Ecumenical Voices: Deterritorializing Kashmir.- Part VI: Technology, Power, and Transformative Landscapes.- Chapter 26: Women, Roads and Development: Infrastructures of State-Making in Gilgit-Baltistan.- Chapter 27: The Economic Mal-Development of Jammu and Kashmir: Uncovering the Myth of Lagging Behind.- Chapter 28: An Ecopoetics of Refusal: Crisis Epistemologies and Environmental Violence in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.- Chapter 29: Chinese Infrastructure and the Pakistani Military State in Gilgit Baltistan.