Ather Zia

Biographic Data

ID3600155
NAMEAther Zia
GIVEN NAMESAther
FAMILY NAMEZia
SIGNATUREZIA A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Northern Colorado
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Palestine and the Political Life of Prayer in Kashmir

    Ather ZiaARTICLESouth Asian Review2025

  • Afterword

    Ather ZiaARTICLESouth Asia Journal of South Asian…2024

  • Decolonial Futures

    Faye Caronan, Natalie Avalos et al.ARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2023

    This roundtable showcases how different Asian, Pacific Islander, and Indigenous communities in Colorado are fighting for sovereignty of their homelands. It reorients the question of “homelands” to highlight the experiences of communities whose homelands remain occupied by settler-colonial and imperial nation-states, like the United States, India, Israel, and China. Participants speak to the struggles of sovereignty of their communities and commun…

  • Kashmiri Futures

    Mohamad Junaid, Deepti Misri et al.ARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2023

    This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political frames of powerful nation-states that have sought to keep Kashmiris confined to a long and seemingly enduring colonial present. It seeks, moreover, to inspire radical imaginations of possible futures in danger of foreclosure by occupying states, and asks us to think about occupation as a temp…

  • The Land of Dreams

    Ather ZiaARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2023

    In this short piece of dystopian speculative fiction, Kashmiris are forbidden to dream

  • Poetry as Dissent and Placemaking in Indian-Occupied Kashmir

    Open AccessAther ZiaARTICLEAsian Affairs2022

    This article pivots around poetry as a category of analysis; and the figure of a poet as a humanistic optic to look at how forms of resistance are shaped in public and private domains in the Indian occupied Kashmir. The analysis considers poets writing in Kashmiri, other vernacular languages as well as English, and Urdu. In an occupied zone, where a war stands at all corners of the homes and streets, poetry ceases to be mere words. Poetry becomes…

  • Relating Otherwise

    Mona Bhan, Deepti Misri et al.ARTICLEBiography2020Cited by: 2

    In this paper we reflect on a history of the textured relationships that Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits shared prior to 1989, a date widely framed in Kashmiri popular history and memory as the moment when communitarian relationships in the Kashmir Valley underwent a radical shift. Grounding our exploration in nine life narratives appended to this article by scholars, artists, poets, and writers, mostly Kashmiri, we seek to retrieve a textured under…

  • A desolation called peace

    Ather Zia, Javaid Iqbal BhatBOOKA desolation called peace2019

    The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and India, echoes of which continue to be heard even today. At the time, Sheikh Abdullah was the uncrowned king of Kashmir; today, his grave is under security lest it be vandalized. What accounts for this change in attitude? A Desolation Called Peace provides important insights to understand the political aspirations of the people of Kashmiri and the change…

  • Geographies of Occupation in South Asia

    Ali, Nosheen Ali et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies2019Cited by: 1

    Nosheen Ali, Mona Bhan, Sahana Ghosh, Hafsa Kanjwal, Zunaira Komal, Deepti Misri, Shruti Mukherjee, Nishant Upadhyay, Saiba Varma, Ather Zia, Geographies of Occupation in South Asia, Feminist Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2-3, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts (2019), pp. 574-580

  • Resisting Occupation in Kashmir

    Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan et al.EDITORBOOKResisting Occupation in Kashmir2018