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The Settler Colonial Imagination: Hindutva, Neoliberal Interests, and Coming to Grips with Collective Trauma and Genocide in Kashmir
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Despite a growing literature on the role of narrative testimony and public storytelling as democratic, legal, and therapeutic resource for survivors of mass political violence and marginalization (see Jovanovic, 2012; Kirmayer, Gone, & Moses, 2014, and; Wexler, 1995, among many others), there is little empirical understanding of the importance of creating socio-legal mechanisms for testimony and storytelling in overcoming the historical legacies of colonialism and collective trauma in the world’s most protracted social conflicts (Azar, 1984). Indian administered Kashmir is a case in point. Stuck in the settler colonial imagination of a country now ruled by Hindutva forces, the December 2021 Russell Tribunal on Kashmir took as one of its four key goals to look at the Kashmir conflict through the lens of settler colonialism. In the context of neoliberal and Hindutva hegemonic forces, is such a reframing of this protracted social conflict even possible? What role can transitional justice mechanisms play in treating decades of collective historical trauma brought on by settler colonial interests and their attenuate dominant assumptions about hierarchy and religiously sanctioned exceptionalism? Combining narrative analysis, transitional justice theories of change, and emerging research on collective trauma, this paper argues a public peace process (Saunders, 1999) is not only welcome, but required for peace in the region.
Exploring Hindutva as a form of religious exceptionalism, neoliberalism as a form of neocolonialism, and centering Kashmir as a decolonial struggle, this paper explores the intersections of systems of power and trauma as important drivers of protracted conflict. Trauma here is not the individual trauma that we often associate with cognitive sequalae after violence, but rather a collective cognitive impasse that infects the body politic of a region or nation for years, decades, and even centuries after violence has ceased. This type of collective historical trauma drives much contemporary conflict (Rinker & Lawler, 2018), and provides an apt description of the Kashmir impasse.
Key Words:
Kashmir Conflict; Neoliberalism; Collective Trauma; Decolonization; Settler Colonialism; Transitional Justice; Public Dialogue Processes; Narrative testimony.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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