Description
This roundtable is focused around Niharika Pandit's new book, Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir. The roundtable invites anti-militarist, gender and queer thinkers to speak to the book's key ideas on militarisation as a logic of coloniality; transnational anticolonial feminist politics; and how settler/occupier states enforce sovereign control in everyday life as opening new directions and possibilities in gender, sexuality and anti/decolonial thinking within international studies.
The roundtable participants will reflect on the broader questions of anticolonial feminist politics, the co-option of gender and sexual freedoms in colonial projects, the importance of thinking with marginalised geographies in the Global South, contemporary (post)coloniality, global militarisation and the politics of solidarity by engaging Niharika's work with their own research, thinking and organising.
