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Resisting Disappearance - Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,425
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Resisting Disappearance - Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Hardcover): Ather Zia

Resisting Disappearance - Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (Hardcover)

Ather Zia; Series edited by Piya Chatterjee

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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Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms
Release date: June 2019
Authors: Ather Zia
Series editors: Piya Chatterjee
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74499-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Religious freedom
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
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LSN: 0-295-74499-5
Barcode: 9780295744995

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