Book Launch: Occupying the Everyday

Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford University Press). The author Niharika Pandit will be in conversation with Rahul Rao (St. Andrews), Ather Zia (online, University of Northern Colorado), Goldie Osuri (Warwick), Nawal Ali (Durham) and Hanna Al-Taher (Kassel University/QMUL). The discussion will be chaired by Layli Uddin (QMUL).

On 5 August 2019, when the Indian state deoperationalised Jammu and Kashmir’s nominal autonomy, integrationist and heterosexist discourses including ‘Kashmir is finally integrated and will see development' and 'Indian men can now marry fair-skinned Kashmiri women' gained fuel. Assembling a rigorous post-2019 archive by combining ethnographic investigations and interdisciplinary gender studies, Occupying the Everyday examines these narratives alongside everyday practices of violence, control, silencing and surveillance to offer a grounded theorisation of militarisation as a logic of colonial occupation by contemporary nation-states in these times of global imperialism.

Occupying the Everyday advances an anticolonial feminist epistemology that positions marginal locations of the Global South as sites of liberatory feminist thinking that reveal the colonial asymmetries in South-South relations. The book weaves patchwork ethnography, the politics of location and practices of faithful epistemic witnessing as ethical and methodological tools for de/anticolonial feminist research.

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