Displacement from Kashmir: Gendered Responses

Sawhney, Charu; Mehrotra, Nilika

doi:10.1177/0038022920130105

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“…Local human rights organizations have continued to raise their voice for what they call, 'the continued practice of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions of Kashmiris with impunity in Jammu and Kashmir' (Ganai, 2017). There are many instances of social and physical displacement faced by women after cases of enforced disappearance of their husbands or males on whom women are dependent for their livelihood (Sawhney and Mehrotra, 2013). Besides, limited choice is another issue for women whose husbands disappear.…”

Section: Institutionalization Of Security and Its Myriad Impactsmentioning

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Multilayered Consequences in a Turmoil Zone: A Study of Lived Experiences of Women in Jammu and Kashmir

Sarvesh

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Kashmir in the popular imagination is seen through the lens of excessively securitized and state-centric narratives that cast a shadow over the struggles of everyday life in Kashmir. An overriding climate of conflict, natural disasters, untimely snowfall and loss of tourism (one of the mainstays of Kashmir’s economy) have phenomenally shrunk people’s choices. Weak state institutions have induced a feeling of alienation among the Kashmiri people. This qualitative study attempts to look beyond the meta-narratives of conflict and brings out micro narratives of people’s lived experiences in a turmoil zone, radiating both at the inter-generational and intra-generational level, which is eclipsed in Kashmir.

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Section: Institutionalization Of Security and Its Myriad Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multilayered Consequences in a Turmoil Zone: A Study of Lived Experiences of Women in Jammu and Kashmir

Sarvesh

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…The case of Fayaz Ahmad (name changed) 4 , who I interviewed after he was released after detention reveals the marks of torture that were visible on his body. In 2006, Fayaz was going to meet his friend in a nearby village.…”

Section: Gendered Violence In the Valley After Post 1990smentioning

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Displacement and gendered violence in the Kashmir Valley: An analysis

Haq

Sofi²

2020

Vestnik SPbSU. International relations

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In the global era, women, particularly in sub-continent are facing violence in every section of society. They are not only abused by partners and other family members, but they are treated as a different and marginalized sect of society. While talking about Kashmir, the escalation of political turmoil led to the displacement of minority communities, mainly the Kashmiri Hindus, from Kashmir. The weak democracy in Jammu and Kashmir and the majority-minority dynamics in the state led to the displacement of about three lakh persons (primarily Hindus) from the valley in 1989. It is more than two decades since the displacement of minorities from Kashmir, and their prolonged living in the new locations has resulted in social and cultural changes post-displacement. The shift to a new location has significance in analysing how the traditional structures and practices are redefined in the new locations. An atmosphere of fear and threat developed in Kashmir after the alleged rigging in the 1987 state assembly elections and this heightened the frustration of a large number of Kashmiri youth due to malpractices of the government. The women (non-Muslim) mostly faced coercion in the form of abuses during the 1990s. Abusive slogans were displayed on loudspeakers and the rape threats were clearly visible in the letter that was displayed on the street poles. The assessment of this paper is to highlight violence against women during the escalation of displacement and after displacing, how such women face the same gendered violence outside the state. The paper would be based on experiences and narratives of Kashmiri pundit women, who are residing in different migration camps outside Kashmir. The study is based on descriptive and empirical analysis of a problem that can be studied by applying the exploratory approach.

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Rooted in the Uprooted: Material Memories of Migration from Kashmir

Pathak¹,

Karmakar²

2022

Visual Anthropology

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Displacement from Kashmir: Gendered Responses

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Multilayered Consequences in a Turmoil Zone: A Study of Lived Experiences of Women in Jammu and Kashmir

Multilayered Consequences in a Turmoil Zone: A Study of Lived Experiences of Women in Jammu and Kashmir

Displacement and gendered violence in the Kashmir Valley: An analysis

Rooted in the Uprooted: Material Memories of Migration from Kashmir

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