Conversations on Gender, Peace and Security

Professor Marsha Henry in conversation with Dr Niharika Pandit and Dr Jamie J. Hagen about their new books exploring everyday militarisation, peacebuilding, and queer security studies.

Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford University Press) by Niharika Pandit

Occupying the Everyday ethnographically maps India’s military occupation of Kashmir by exploring space, home, time and storytelling/archive as both sites of military-colonial violence but also as spaces where wilful counterpolitics is generatively and continually practiced.

The book argues that feminist and queer scholars thinking with/from the Global South must move beyond merely empirically mapping the colonialities of the modern nation-states and their entanglements with colonial control and militarised violence but also understand how people’s everyday realities epistemically shift how we can analyse and resist the violence of modern states and their imperial/colonial entanglements.