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Resisting Disappearance - Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Paperback)
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Resisting Disappearance - Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Paperback)
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms
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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. Drawn 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.
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