Delusional states: Love, Citzenship and resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan
This talk will examine the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute. Professor Ali will illuminate how within the hate-centered, toxic nationalisms of India and Pakistan lie other stories—of love and betrayal, loyalty and suspicion, beauty and terror—that help us grasp how the Kashmir conflict is affectively structured and experienced on the ground. She will also shed light on how the situation in Gilgit-Baltistan helps us think through the larger questions of nationalism, dissent, and citizenship in the contexts of Pakistan, India, and South Asia at present.
Date: 9 February 2021, 14:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speaker: Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
Organising department: Asian Studies Centre
Organiser contact email address: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
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Booking email: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Clare Salter