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Thinking Global Podcast – Nitasha Kaul
No full textIn this episode of the Thinking Global podcast by E-IR (E-International Relations), Nitasha Kaul speaks with the team. Professor Kaul begins by exploring Democracy in India, discussing thinning press freedoms and the effect of technological change and surveillance on Indian Democracy. From here, Professor Kaul speaks about the status of Human Rights and Human Rights Abuses in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir, prior to an exploration of the response to such abuses by the international community
Women and Kashmir
No full textAn edited special issue of the EPW/RWS (Economic & Political Weekly/Review of Women's Studies) on Women and Kashmir. Nitasha Kaul (and co-editor Ather Zia) have put together a historic *first ever* such collection of work on Kashmiri women produced by Kashmiri women scholars themselves
Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?
No full textThis volume, edited by Dr Nitasha Kaul and Dr Ather Zia initiates the reader into a complex understanding of Kashmiri women's life-worlds, in the context of protracted civil and military occupation. The women here speak and write about the aftermath of the shocking abrogation of Article 370 inauguraust 2019, of spectacles and street protests in the valley; of women's companionships and female alliances; and of the literature of resistance
Written Testimony of Dr Nitasha Kaul
No full textGood afternoon Chair Sherman and other members of the Sub-Committee. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to testify as an expert for I am someone who is not only a person of Kashmiri origin, but an extensively published scholar and writer on Kashmir, India, democracy, politics and international relations. Let me start by clarifying that I do not represent any advocacy group or lobby organisation and my views are based solely on my professional expertise, convictions, experience, and witnessing. I frequently travel to the region and have researched, published, presented and spoken about India and Kashmir for more than a decade. In fact, I do not claim to speak for the Kashmiri people, but of them, because they are my own regardless of their religious or regional identities. I also speak on behalf of those Indians who are protesting their government’s undemocratic actions in Kashmir, and of course, for every human being like yourselves who believes in human rights for all and tyranny against none. I do wish this hearing had at least one expert witness from the main community most adversely affected – the Kashmiri Muslims from the valley; I hope you will have further hearings where you can invite human rights defenders
from the valley and they would be allowed to travel by the Indian government
Dark Tourism Geographies: Ontological, Epistemological and Axiological Perspectives
No full textIn this state of the art piece, we provide an overview of past debates and current trends in dark tourism geographies, and conceptually examine its theoretical intersections with critical issues, emerging ideas, paradigmatic progress and future research directions from three perspectives: ontological, epistemological, and axiological. Axiological trends and concerns in dark tourism geographies involve: the absence of cultural humility; the digital turn; and intersections between entertainment and education. Onto-epistemological observations include: the gap between theory and praxis; a reluctance to engage with real and pragmatic issues of contemporary social, political and environmental importance; and the growing use of new materialist perspectives demonstrating the potential for an interdisciplinary and changing assemblage within geography that goes beyond traditional anthropocentric views of place. Finally, we suggest that dark tourism geographies, as a field, must include pluriversal, polyvocal and transformative possibilities and embrace the fuzziness, mobility, and fluidity of its boundaries
The Economics of Turning People into Things1
No full textNitasha Kaul argues that economic violence refers not only to violence caused for economic reasons, but also to violence caused by spurious economics. It is economic violence when people lose their jobs and livelihoods, when they witness massively divergent rewards for work and when they see an endless perpetuation of inequality around them. Such involuntary unemployment in the long run leads to social breakdown and community fragmentation.
Framing the sublime as affect in post-disaster tourism
Get PDFThis article frames dark tourism experiences employing the geographical concept of sublime-as-affect. We contend that the sublime has features that allow us to analyse it as an affect, an intensity of feeling that circulates in-between bodies, which can be experienced poignantly in places of death, and lead to transformative experiences. By presenting accounts of tourism-related stakeholders in post-disaster Tohoku, Japan, devastated by an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown, we overview moments in which the sublime-as-affect is experienced. Findings suggest that while the dilapidated and abandoned landscapes of Tohoku evoke a negative representation, they also demonstrate a potential for generating transformative affects, which can become a vehicle for meaning in post-disaster tourism encounters
Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence
No full textThis paper explores the intersection of dark tourism and spectral geographies, offering a critical examination of how spaces of death, disaster, trauma, and painful memories are shaped by hauntings and spectral presence. Drawing on hauntology and the work of Derrida, as well as on work in spectral geographies, it proposes spectrality not as a metaphor to analyse places connected with literal ghosts and supernatural presence, but as an analytical framework that reconfigures our understanding of temporality, spatiality, and presence within dark tourism sites. This article, as introduction to a collection of works on the nexus between dark tourism and spectral geographies, argues that spectrality offers a qualitative and transformative rethinking of dark tourism, revealing how disruptions in linear understandings of absence and presence, and past-present-future temporalities can produce sites that are emotionally and politically charged, and ethically complex. The collection interrogates how ghostly traces—whether of colonialism, disaster, or ecological loss—complicate linear historical narratives. It positions spectrality as a transformative and generative lens through which to engage with dark tourism’s critical potential in negotiating memory, justice, and intergenerational trauma
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