Kashmir as a Borderland

The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Antía Mato Bouzas, Antia Mato Bouzas, Antía Mato Bouzas

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This book examines the Kashmir dispute from a borderland perspective, adopting the novel approach of understanding the conflict from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC). The aim is to investigate the political space the border has created.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-14
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAsian Borderlands
Antal sidor206
Upplaga0
FörlagAmsterdam University Press
ISBN9789463729406

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Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas is a researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Her research focus is on the politics of the South Asian region, with an interest on borders and citizenship. She currently works on a project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) on migration from north-eastern Pakistan to the Gulf.|Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

List of maps and figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 Kashmir: The Idea and its Parts Making the princely state: fixing borders and building a power centre in the Kashmir Valley Partition and the importance of taking sides Territorial integrity and transformation of the border space Conclusion Chapter 2 Conceptualizing a Borderland Approach to Kashmir The borderland Border roads: the contours of making state space Violence, social diversity and fragmentation Kashmir borderland as a distinct political space Conclusion Chapter 3 The Urban Areas Near the LoC (I): The 'Kashmir Issue' in Srinagar and Muzaffarabad Militarization of the urban Srinagar: the epicentre of conflict Muzaffarabad: the place of refuge and support of the Kashmir cause Conclusion Chapter 4 The Urban Areas Near the LoC (II): The 'Kashmir Issue' in Skardu and Kargil The specific position of Skardu as a non-Kashmiri and non-Pakistani location Kargil and the borders of the nation The dispute from the border urban areas: a conclusion Chapter 5 The Line... the People The opening of the LoC Border immobilities: separation across Kargil (Ladakh) and Baltistan Border work: normalizing the state space Conclusion Chapter 6 Belonging and the Politics of Belonging in the Kashmir Borderland The case of Ahmed Understanding belonging: space and identity Belonging across borders as claims to recognition Politics of belonging and world (b)ordering, Conclusion Acronyms, References, Index.