Review of RESISTING DISAPPEARANCE: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir by Ather Zia. University of Washington Press, 2019.

Sharma, Sarbani (2020) Review of RESISTING DISAPPEARANCE: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir by Ather Zia. University of Washington Press, 2019. SEMINAR.

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Abstract

IN the past thirty years of the ongoing armed resistance movement that has challenged the logic of Indian state occupation in the Kashmir valley, the spectral disappearance and loss of innumerable young Kashmiri men has been one of the quintessential features of the Indian state’s tactic of control and oppression on the state’s population. Typical to how sovereign violence justifies its means for an end, the Indian statist narratives have relegated the ‘disappeared’ men as ‘missing’ individuals that deflected the accountability of the Indian state from the systemic, symbolic and structural human rights violations committed in the Kashmir valley.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Sharma, Sarbani
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Social problems & services > Other social problems and services
Divisions:	Azim Premji University > School of Development
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/5548
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