Everyday Occupations

Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin, and author most recently of Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference and Perspectives on Modern South Asia.

• Healing the Forest—Cheran RudhramoorthyIntroduction: Everyday Occupations—Kamala VisweswaranChapter 1. Qırıx: An "Inverted Rhapsody" on Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbakı—Serap Ruken SengulChapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka—Sandya HewamanneChapter 3. Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan—Nosheen AliChapter 4. Stateless Citizens and Menacing Men: Notes on the Occupation of Palestinians Inside Israel—Rhoda KanaanehChapter 5. Indigenous Women and Culture in the Colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh—Kabita Chakma and Glen HillChapter 6. Death and Life Under Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir—Mohamad JunaidChapter 7. The Missing Grave of Sheikh Said: Kurdish Formations of Memory, Place, and Sovereignty in Turkey—Hisyar OszoyAfterword: Refining the Optic of Occupation—Richard FalkSome Day—Kabita ChakmaNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Colonial-style occupations, counter-insurgencies and militarized zones scar the face of much of South Asia and the Middle East. But what specific forms does such everyday violence assume in the postcolonial reality of sovereign nation-states? This indispensable volume offers some brilliant and disturbing answers." (Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire) "In questioning and subverting conventional definitions and ingrained assumptions about the nature of occupation, this exciting and refreshing collection drives us towards a much richer and fuller understanding. These essays express the highest form of intellectual and political commitment, one that does not hesitate to speak the truth of our moment." (Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles) "The authors' in-depth local analyses, together with an awareness of cross-regional echoes and resonances of cultures of occupation, are inspiring. The reader is drawn immediately into the reality of a globalizing popular culture of life under occupation." (Alex Pillen, University College, London)