
Contemporary Colonialities
Kurds and Kashmiris
University of Westminster Press
Published on 30. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-1-915445-25-4 (ISBN)
Description
We live in a world dominated by states and statist knowledge; this is a world where, for multiple institutional and political reasons, it is rare to speak of more than one stateless nation, and there is a conspicuous neglect of non-Western colonial practices. This volume brings together scholarship on two peoples associated with 'conflict' but who we argue are best described as 'stateless nations': Kurds and Kashmiris. Both these contexts raise important questions relating to coloniality, sovereignty, statehood, self-determination and human rights, and yet they have never been studied together. Our intervention challenges the 'sovereignty privilege' in International Relations and calls upon postcolonial and decolonial studies to take anti-colonialism seriously by focusing on contemporary stateless nations. The Kurdish and Kashmiri conflicts are more than power-laden contestations by states over territories; they are colonialities of power experienced by embodied individuals and involve mobilised communities of stateless nations with different gendered and political vulnerabilities. "This book addresses the complex issue of colonialism and nationalism among the Kurds who live in Turkey and the Kashmiris who live in the valley of Kashmir. For those wishing to understand the respective political, religious and social challenges of both groups, this book is essential reading." Victoria Schofield, author of Kashmir in the Crossfire and Kashmir in Conflict
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 B-W images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-915445-25-4 (9781915445254)
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Professor Dibyesh Anand is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement and Employability) and Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear.
Professor Nitasha Kaul holds a Chair in Politics, International Relations and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster. Her books include Imagining Economics Otherwise, Future Tense, Residue and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?
Professor Nitasha Kaul holds a Chair in Politics, International Relations and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster. Her books include Imagining Economics Otherwise, Future Tense, Residue and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?