All Outputs (8)

A note on gender and Kashmiriyat (2018)
Journal Article

Discourses of insaniyat, Kashmiriyat aur jamhooriyat (humanism, “Kashmiriness,” and democracy) have resurfaced in Indian discussions on Kashmir since 2016. The phrase was originally coined by the former prime minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,... Read More about A note on gender and Kashmiriyat.

Gender and resistance in Kashmir: old paradigms, new approaches (2018)
Journal Article

In July 2016, violence erupted in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley across the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. This violence came in response to the killing of a popular young militant, Burhan Wani, by the Indian security for... Read More about Gender and resistance in Kashmir: old paradigms, new approaches.

Feminist perspectives on Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Panel at Feministisk Festival, Malmö

Reimagining Kashmir: Gender, resistance, and the futures of the state (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This event will explore the role of gender in reproducing militarisation and resistance in Kashmir. The centre of both a geopolitical territorial struggle between India and Pakistan and a resistance movement against the Indian Government, Kashmir is... Read More about Reimagining Kashmir: Gender, resistance, and the futures of the state.

When the personal becomes research: Reflections on fieldwork in Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fieldwork is a personal and embodied act. Intersectional positionalities of gender, race, class, and location inform the relationship between the researcher and participants in the field. This relationship is not necessarily constituted by the binari... Read More about When the personal becomes research: Reflections on fieldwork in Kashmir.

Negotiating in/security: Women’s activism in Kashmir (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to interrogate the relationship between women’s activism and in/security through a narrative approach to feminist security studies. The investigation of women’s activism in the Kashmir Valley highlights gendered notions of in/security... Read More about Negotiating in/security: Women’s activism in Kashmir.

Contesting feminism/feminist contestations in debates on feminist foreign policy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In April 2017, Saudi Arabia was elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Of the 54 UN members eligible to vote, 47 voted for Saudi Arabia to join, while 7 abstained. Sweden was one of the states that partook in the election process,... Read More about Contesting feminism/feminist contestations in debates on feminist foreign policy.

‘Destructive masculinities’ and ‘women mediators’: Conceptualising gender in feminist foreign policy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper analyses Sweden’s agenda of feminist foreign policy (FFP). In 2014, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, proudly announced that the newly formed Social Democrat and Green coalition Government would pursue a new foreig... Read More about ‘Destructive masculinities’ and ‘women mediators’: Conceptualising gender in feminist foreign policy.