In this podcast, we speak to Professor Hafsa Kanjwal, about her book that was published recently, called Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation. In her work, she highlights how India entrenched and consolidated its colonization of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, and normalization. While most of the works on Kashmir's history and politics imbibed the self-congratulatory narrative of secularism, Hafsa challenges it and unveils the imbrication of secularism with colonialism in Kashmir. Additionally, many scholars speak of Kashmiri resistance against India as stemming from a lack of or incompleteness of what's called development, Hafsa's work shows how development acts as a tool for the normalization and consolidation of India's colonization of Kashmir. We talk about all of this, and other things, in this podcast.

Recommended Readings:

1. Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian Occupation, by Hafsa Kanjwal.

2. The Human Right to Dominate, by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini.

3. Israel's Occupation, by Neve Gordon.

4. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power, by Byung-Chul Han.