Professor Ather Zia was invited to deliver this lecture at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in October 2021. The talk was cancelled at the last minute due to objections raised by the university administration about its supposedly provocative subject. The talk is now hosted by InSAF India as part of its 'Missing Lectures' series.
Gendered resistance and fresh challenges in a post 2019 Kashmir
Thursday, 17 March 2022
This talk draws and build upon the ethnography Resisting Disappearance (WUP/Zubaan), giving an overview of the historical gendered resistance to Indian occupation in Kashmir. It discusses the fresh challenges to resistance and dissent in Kashmir post 2019 and how it has affected women and Kashmiris in general. The talk is be followed by a response and Q&A with the audience.
Speaker: Ather Zia, political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist.
Ather is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. She is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (June 2019) which won the 2020 Gloria Anzaldua Honorable Mention award, 2021 Public Anthropologist Award, Advocate of the Year Award 2021 and 2021 Rosaldo Book Prize, Honorable Mention. She has been featured in the Femilist 2021, a list of 100 women from the Global South working on critical issues. She is the co-editor of Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak (Women Unlimited 2020), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (Upenn 2018) and A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins, May 2019). She has published a poetry collection The Frame and another collection is forthcoming. In 2013, Ather’s ethnographic poetry on Kashmir won an award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region.
Respondent: Mohamad Junaid, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Other lectures in the series
Co-hosts for the above webinars include Ambedkar King Study Circle (California), India Civil Watch International, British Association for South Asian Studies, Scholars At Risk, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, The Forum on Education in Asia (UCL), and the SIU University Honors Program