Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices in order to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and questions the way the dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination. In doing so, the Handbook situates critical Kashmir studies within global scholarly conversations on nationalism, sovereignty, indigenous movements, human rights and international law.

The Handbook is organized into five parts, which interrogate the assumptions of any emergent statist approaches to Kashmir:

• Territories, Homelands, and Boundaries

• Memories, Futures, Aspirations

• Militarism, Humanitarianism, and Occupation

• Armed Conflict, Global Wars and Transnational Solidarities

• Spiritual Sites and Politics of Religion

The first comprehensive reference work documenting and consolidating the growing scholarship on critical Kashmir studies, this Handbook will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience interested in International Relations and Asian Studies, in particular South Asian Politics and Kashmir Studies.