"Routledge Handbook Of Critical Kashmir Studies | Asian Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism patriotism democracy and liberalism and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power create hegemony and normalize domination. In doing so the handbook situates Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship within global scholarly conversations on nationalism sovereignty indigenous movements human rights and international law. The handbook is organized into the following five parts: Territories Homelands Borders Militarism Humanism Occupation Memories Futures Imaginations Religion History Politics Armed Conflict Global War Transnational Solidarities A comprehensive reference work documenting and consolidating the growing Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship this handbook will be of interest to scholars of anthropology political science cultural studies legal and sociolegal studies sociology history critical Indigenous studies settler colonial studies and feminist studies.|Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies | Asian Studies