Ep. 8 - A Year of Siege in Kashmir: Military Lockdown, Annexation and Dissent as Pedagogy

In this episode Hafsa Kanjwal discusses the on-going siege of Kashmir by the Indian state and the abrogation of article 370 that took place one year ago in August 2019. She speaks about the revocation of article 35A, the implementation of domicile certificates and their political, economic, environmental and demographic ramifications for Kashmiri’s, and settler colonialism in the region. She discusses the pedagogical impetus of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective and the Kashmir Syllabus, through a Kashmiri lens that challenges dominant academic and public discourses on the region. She also reflects on the meanings of self-determination, azadi (freedom) and solidarity.