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BETWEEN
DEMOCRACY AND NATION: GENDER AND MILITARISATION IN KASHMIR
Seema Kazi
(Eds.)
Rs.375 Hb 2009
81-88965-46-4
(All rights available)
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This book focuses on the militarisation of a secessionist
movement involving Kashmiri militants and Indian military
forces in Jammu and Kashmir. In contrast to the conventional
approaches that distinguish between inter- and intra-state military conflict, this analysis of India’s external and domestic crises of militarisation is located within a single analytic frame: it argues
that both dimensions have common political origins. Highlighting the intersection between the two the author argues that the heaviest and the most grevious price of using the military for domestic repression and for the defense of Kashmir is paid by Kashmir’s citizens and society. Drawing on women’s subjective experience of militarisation, she examines the relationsip between state military processes at the national level and social transformations at the local/societal level. By way of conclusion, she manitains that
Kashmir's humanitarian tragedy — exemplified by its gender dimensions-underlines has failed either to ensure 'security for the state, or security and justice for Kashmiris. |
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SEEMA
KAZI
has been educated in India,
the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. She has worked with
NGOs and women’s groups in India during whish she was part of
an international research project on women and laws in the
Muslim world. She subsequently worked as an independent
researcher and writer in the area of Muslim women and human
rights with Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), Washington D.C. and the Minority Rights Group (MR) London. She has a PhD from the Gender Institute, London School of Economics. |
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