Occupations in context – The cultural logics of occupation, settler violence, and resistance

Bhan, Mona; Duschinski, Haley

doi:10.1177/0308275x20929403

Cited by 9 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 60 publications

(50 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As Chatterjee (2012) notes, the study of the postcolonial everyday cuts across two broad strands of geographic research, one macro—a global hierarchy of nations, states, and empires (e.g. Bhan and Duschinki 2020; Ghosh and Duschinki 2020; Kazi 2014; Osuri 2017, 2018; Zia 2019)—and a second local—experienced and lived by elites and subaltern alike in the intimate spaces of subjecthood, affect, and representation (e.g. Aijazi 2018; Kabir 2009; Zutshi 2018).…”

Section: Memory Place and The Un/knowing Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism Otherwise and the Poetics of Solidarity: A Methodological Intervention De‐b/ordering Kashmir

Dar

Masood

2023

Antipode

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper reflects deeply on possibilities for developing solidarity with Kashmiri freedom struggles by mobilising a memorialisation praxis informed by poetics. We coin the term "colonialism otherwise" to describe the particular instruments and effects of postcolonial colonialism as they appear in the intimate space of family narratives, memories, and feelings. Foregrounding the works of the Kashmiri poet, essayist, and filmmaker, Uzma Falak, we write our memorialisations to respond to the poet's demands to bear witness to Kashmiri people's abjection. Our memorialisation praxis is guided by the questions: how do we know Kashmir as a place, and relatedly, what are the political limitations of our articulated solidarity with the anti-colonial struggle for azaadi?

show abstract

Section: Memory Place and The Un/knowing Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonialism Otherwise and the Poetics of Solidarity: A Methodological Intervention De‐b/ordering Kashmir

Dar

Masood

2023

Antipode

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In such a perspective, power over land can involve processes of boundary‐making and the establishment of proprietary rights through acts of planting bushes and crops, designing gardens, and rooting and uprooting trees. Indeed, plants have a materiality that, while perhaps not as immediately obvious as that of kokers, seawalls, and monuments, is equally important for projects of control over land (see Besky 2017; Bhan 2018; Bhan and Duschinski 2020; Braverman 2008; Ram 2012; Singh 2015; Taneja 2018; Wahbe 2020).…”

Section: Planting Inheritancementioning

confidence: 99%

Dutch spirits, East Indians, and Hindu deities in Guyana: Contests over land

Mello

2022

American Anthropologist

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In modern‐day Guyana (formerly British Guiana) residents of the coastal region of the country are susceptible to other‐than‐human powers: the spirits of Dutch colonizers, who claim ownership over the land, especially in areas where sugar plantations once operated. Regarded as the “masters of the land,” or “boundary masters,” Dutch spirits demand offerings and the recognition of land rights from their human co‐habitants. Through a description of rituals towards the land performed by members of a heterodox Hindu sect, the worship of the goddess Kali, this article addresses territorial sovereignty through the lens of lived and embodied practices of co‐habitation between East Indians and Dutch spirits, giving special attention to the processes of establishing proprietary rights over the land through such acts as planting trees.

show abstract

“…While the annexation has once more raised the issue of Kashmir's right to selfdetermination based on United Nations resolutions and charters, 5 it has also significantly drawn attention to India's engagement with Kashmir as a colonial project, currently mutating into an Israeli-style settler-colonial one.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mohamad Junaid (2013) has teased out the political and military phases of India's occupation of Kashmir. Duschinski and Ghosh describe India's constitutional relationship to Kashmir as 'occupational constitutionalism' (2017,5). Kamala Visweswaran had argued that postcolonial theory does not account for 'how the overthrow of European colonialism resulted in the next cycle of settlercolonialism', and suggests that the 'silence among postcolonial theorists on India's ongoing military occupation of Kashmir, Manipur and other parts of Northeast India is as deafening as the protests over Israel's occupation of Palestine are loud ' (2012, 442).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%