Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation

Caron, James; Khan, Salman Hamid

doi:10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

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“…Some of the objects such as satellite dishes, CD players, musical instruments, billboards projecting images of women, certain types of women's clothes were not only the victims of Taliban's violence but also enablers for Taliban to manipulate affect (Khan, 2023). Checkpoints and barricades on various key roads in Swat, barbed wires surrounding buildings of schools and universities, inscriptions on official buildings are employed for projecting return to peace, but they also generate distrust in government, frustration of locals over their lost past, grief and anger over lost innocent lives and so on (Caron and Khan, 2022).…”

Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Women's markets, along with Girls Schools, non-governmental organisations and spaces of artistic production have been a subject of considerable debate in the war on terror unfolding along with Pakistan–Afghanistan's border (Caron and Khan, 2022; Khan, 2022). However, material affectivity of the gendered politics of the war on terror and its affective dimensions are often overlooked within this literature.…”

Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this context, I am attending to how war changes the circulation and meaning of objects (Caron and Khan, 2022), and therefore, the way space is reconfigured. Within this context, it is important to note that many of my interviewees reported being lost and perplexed during the conflict, indicating that violence and its material manifestations rendered normative gender relations unintelligible.…”

Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings

Khan

2023

Journal of Material Culture

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This paper explores the agentic capacities of inanimate objects and their role in shaping the affective atmospheres of women's markets in a post-conflict setting. To analyse this material affectivity, I draw on women's markets of Swat in Pakistan and the role of four selected objects including posters/notices, bras, mannequins and curtains in the generation, transmission and manipulation of affect. I ask, how objects matter in shaping the affectivity of women's markets during and after Swat's conflict? To answer this question, I draw on 36 semi-structured interviews with men traders ( N = 18) and women customers ( N = 18) along with my field notes. I found that centring our analyses upon gendered materiality of mundane objects allow us to capture nuances of unruly capacities and gendered affectivities of objects in the context of war and post-conflict environments. Moreover, my findings suggest that focussing on agentic capacities of objects enhance our understanding of the affective materiality of women's markets in the post-conflict setting.

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Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Empirical Context: Aur Swat Jalta Raha (And Swat Kept Burning)mentioning

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Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings

Khan

2023

Journal of Material Culture

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“…Being at the intersection of the contentious “Durand Line,” which separates Pakistan from Afghanistan, it was also affected by the military adventurism of state practices during the “war on terror.” Dir is therefore ruled using colonial governing practices, much like other peripheries. However, unlike Swat and Waziristan (Caron and Khan, 2022; Hopkins and Marsden, 2013), there is little or no literature that has looked at state practices and the war’s effects on the area following 9/11. The state’s politics and practices in the entire peripheral region are repressive and are strongly influenced by Pakistan State center policies and politics toward the peripheral and borderland regions, which spans a border of about 2640 km with Afghanistan commonly known as the frontier.…”

Section: State and The Center/periphery Discoursementioning

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Ruling the Periphery: Pakistan state ruling practices in Lower Dir

Khan

Ullah

Tao

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article examines Pakistan State’s ruling practices in Lower Dir, a peripheral region. It argues that this peripheral region was ruled by a colonial concept logic of governmentality. Through a “thick” ethnography of Lower Dir, I documented the militarized and fragmented state practices that Tsing refers to as the “sticky materiality of practical encounters” of the local people with the state apparatuses. The study collected data through anthropological methods such as mobile ethnography at checkpoints, casual conversations with locals, and firsthand observations of state ruling practices in the region. This article concludes that it is the Pakistan state’s strategic interest that keeps the region out of the mainstream, and its security status is now even more important for Pakistan state following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in August 2021.

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“… 25. See Ali (2012) and Caron and Khan (2022) for insight into poetry as critical knowledge in northern Pakistan. …”

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Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

Ahmad

2022

Sociology

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Despite the decolonial turn among sociologists, we have yet to engage a vast amount of thought produced by anti-colonial movements. The circumvention of much of this thought indexes overly restrictive understandings of what constitutes social theory, and I diagnose three ways in which this plays out. Anti-colonial movement texts provide striking demonstrations of this limitation, and of what is lost as a result. Through a close study of a banned 1970s pamphlet from Pakistan, I show that critically deepening the decolonial project through an engagement with movement texts raises ethical questions about the academy’s relationship to political struggle and demands new methodologies of archival retrieval that recognise the scattered, fragmented condition of texts subject to colonial violence. If addressed, southern movement texts reveal counter-infrastructures of knowledge production replete with counter-political vocabularies that challenge homogenising academic definitions of the Global South and enrich our theories of decolonial praxis.

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Writing war, and the politics of poetic conversation

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings

Affective materiality of women's markets: The role of objects in conflict and post-conflict settings

Ruling the Periphery: Pakistan state ruling practices in Lower Dir

Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

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