Refusal to disappear

The Layers of Violence, Erasure and Dissonance in Occupied Homelands

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3626864
AutoresSamreen Mushtaq (0000-0002-9894-8726, Institute of Development Studies, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Páginas1-11
Data de publicação2024-11-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2024.2433019
OpenAlexW4404699277
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

This paper is a site of despair, anger, and weariness, in a time of incomprehensible violence. In staying with discomfort and frustration, it is a refusal of the attempted erasures of violence or complying with the need to place it in neat theoretical frameworks. It speaks to an exhaustion in having to theoretically engage with the coherence of dominant epistemologies of meaning-making of violence, in a time when everyday is marked by spectacular violence in Palestine and what that does to thinking of Kashmir, another site of military occupation. I build on my lived experiences as a Muslim Kashmiri woman from the world’s highest militarized zone, the violence of erasure, as well as thinking with/from distance, detachment and dissonances. It is an attempt at reflecting on my ‘ragged, fragmented and often incoherent’ thoughts and experiences around violence, dissonances and feelings of being uprooted. I write this piece ‘pivoted on refusals’. I refuse to make this an exercise of providing easy answers or addressing gaps in the violence literature or of disrupting ways of knowledge production. Who does this writing need to become legible to and what does such legibility attain

Cognitive dissonance · Erasure · Political science · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts