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In my intervention, I will query the terms and conditions of the 'postcolonial' by framing it as a continuation and morphing of colonial tactics, practices and control to offer a conceptualisation of the coloniality of modern/postcolonial states. By focusing on India's military-colonial occupation of Kashmir, my paper will query the gender, sexual, racial, temporal and affective logics that seek to justify occupation, and how modern states use colonial logics along with civilisational chauvinism to justify militaristic control over dissident lands and peoples. In thinking with the condition of occupation in Kashmir, at the margins of the Global South, my paper will also query how this locational shift prompts an epistemic change to rethink how we understand militarisation and coloniality, and the amenability of gender, sexual and racial logics in ordering and regulating state control.
