Researching Kashmir: Power, Position, and Ethics

mona bhan is Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and professor of anthropology at Syracuse University. She has authored Counterinsurgency, Development, and the Politics of Identity: From Warfare to Welfare? (2014) and coauthored, with Andrew M. Bauer, Climate without Nature: A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene (2018). She has coedited, with Haley Duschinski, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood, Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (2018); with Haley Duschinski and Deepti Misri, the Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (2022); and with Haley Duschinski and Cabeiri deBergh Robinson, The Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (2023).

mohamad junaid is assistant professor of anthropology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He has a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, with research on violence, youth activists, and political subjectivity in Kashmir. His work on military occupation, history writing, space, and memory has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Identities; the Funambulist; and several edited volumes and anthologies.

hafsa kanjwal is assistant professor of South Asian history at Lafayette College. She received her PhD in history and women’s studies from the University of Michigan. Her book, Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building under Indian Occupation, focuses on post-partition state-building in Indian-occupied Kashmir, and will be published in 2023.