Labouring for Kashmir’s azadi:Ongoing violence and resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar

Sharma, Sarbani (2019) Labouring for Kashmir’s azadi:Ongoing violence and resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 54 (1).

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While much has been said about the historicity of the Kashmir conflict or about how individuals and communities have resisted occupation and demanded the right to self-determination, much less has been said about nature of everyday life under these conditions. This article offers a glimpse of life in the working-class neighbourhood of Maisuma, located in the central area of the city of Srinagar, and its engagement with the political movement for azadi (freedom). I argue that the predicament of ‘double interminability’ characterises life in Maisuma—the interminable violence by the state on the one hand and simultaneously the constant call of labouring for azadi by the movement on the other, since the terms of peace are unacceptable.

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