Abstract
What openings are created if environmental violence is placed at the heart of the study of Kashmir? What might an attention to the absorption of ecological decay, ruin, and theft in the everyday reveal? The chapter is set in the mountainscapes of the Neelum valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It weaves together residents' entanglements with conservationists, forest guards, and wildlife officers to illuminate the mutual absorption of the social, environmental, and political to bring to the fore the full range of violence at play and possibilities of ethical life therein. The people of Neelum insist on reparative readings of the environment as a site of abundance, potentiality, and intimacy as opposed to only scarcity, danger, and decline.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK London |
| Pages | 459-474 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031285196 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- environmental violence
- disaster
- climate crisis
- ethnography
- decolonization
- conflict
- Line of Control
- Kashmir
- Northern Pakistan
- sovereignty
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global inequalities
- Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute
