Aouragh, M. 2020. Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir, by Ather Zia,. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 43 (6), pp. 1228-1230. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1843786
| Title | Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir, by Ather Zia, |
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| Type | Book review |
| Authors | Aouragh, M. |
| Abstract | During the autumn of 2019, it felt like the whole world had tuned into Kashmir, the military crackdown was immense and then… it lost all contact with the outside world. The Kashmiri demand for self-determination is a long history of armed rebellion against Indian domination, which began in 1947 and is by now the region’s longest-running conflict. The Kashmiri uprising saw a surge in the late 1980s–1990s, and it was during this period that people experienced a brutal shift in the mode of governance to include killings, arrests and disappearances. It is this momentum that prompted women onto the scene. Kashmiris used digital infrastructure, including numerous social media platforms, to protest against occupation; this infrastructure also facilitated women’s struggles. Then, in 2019, even that small slice of Kashmir’s reality was gone. In what felt like an unprecedented move, the Indian government cut off the Kashmiris … |
| Journal | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |
| Journal citation | 43 (6), pp. 1228-1230 |
| ISSN | 0085-6401 |
| 1479-0270 | |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1843786 |
| Web address (URL) | https://://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1843786 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 17 Dec 2020 |