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Read Vanessa Chishti's essay analysing how the discourse on Kashmir is changing in the midst of India’s political turmoi...
12/12/2021

Read Vanessa Chishti's essay analysing how the discourse on Kashmir is changing in the midst of India’s political turmoil. It discusses the significance of striking down Article 370 for the political project of Hindutva, and briefly traces the influence of the sangh parivar in shaping the broader national consensus on Kashmir. The essay concludes with arguments suggesting the peoples movements in India signal important departures from conventions of politics and political discourse in the country.

https://zanaanwanaan.com/issues/speaking-kashmir-in-india-a-cautiously-optimistic-note/

ZW's second issue on the theme, 'Militarised Media: Power, Propaganda, and Press,' is now available on our website.To re...
20/11/2021

ZW's second issue on the theme, 'Militarised Media: Power, Propaganda, and Press,' is now available on our website.

To read the full issue, please click the following link: https://zanaanwanaan.com/issue-2/

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Our final group of contributors is Farah Bashir, Heeba Din, and Sadaf Wani.Farah Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir. ...
08/11/2021

Our final group of contributors is Farah Bashir, Heeba Din, and Sadaf Wani.

Farah Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir. She was a former photojournalist with Reuters and currently works as a communications consultant. Rumours of Spring is her first book.

Heeba Din is a Lecturer at the Media Education Research Center of the University of Kashmir, where she teaches Human Rights and Photography. She did her Doctorate on Political Cartoons in Kashmir from KU, during which time she was awarded the Maulana Azad Fellowship. She has also received the Kashmir Times Shamim Ahmed Shamin Memorial Award for professional work and academic excellence in 2015.

Sadaf Wani is a Research Associate at Zubaan, a feminist NGO based in New Delhi. She has an MPhil in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology of space, gender and visual cultures. Her work has been published in Himal South Asian, Scroll, and Wande Magazine among others.

Our second group of contributors is: Ifat Gazia, Souzeina Mushtaq, Aashna Jamal, and Hameeda SyedIfat Gazia is a Ph.D. s...
06/11/2021

Our second group of contributors is: Ifat Gazia, Souzeina Mushtaq, Aashna Jamal, and Hameeda Syed

Ifat Gazia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has an M.A. from SOAS, University of London, in Media and Development. She is the founder and host of The Kashmir Podcast. Ifat is the recipient of the Muslim Women in Media Fellowship 2020, the UMass Research Enhancement and Leadership Fellowship and the Unicorn Fund 2021.

Souzeina Mushtaq is an educator and a photographer based in New York City. She received her doctorate in Media and Gender studies from Ohio University. She worked as a journalist in multiple capacities as a reporter, editor, and television host for seven years in Kashmir and New Delhi. Her research focuses on q***r Muslim women and their intersecting identities. Moreover, she collaborated on a visual ethnography project on "Nomads and Weavers of the Himalayas" in Kashmir and Tibet and "Yörüks of the Ta**us Mountains" in Turkey for nearly a decade. She currently teaches journalism at the University of Wisconsin-RiverFalls.

Aashna Jamal is an economist with experience working in low and middle-income countries. She has cross-cutting experience in governance, health, child protection, social protection, and education sectors. She holds an M.A. in International and Development Economics from Yale University, U.S.A. and a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Aashna has received scholarships from Aga Khan Foundation, Rotary International, and P.E.O. International, amongst other institutions. Her interests lie in public finance and governance within fragile states. She likes writing fiction in her spare time.

Hameeda Syed is currently pursuing her Master’s in Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has worked as a journalist for close to two years in Kashmir and Delhi. Having completed her graduation in Psychology, she has also spearheaded a two-month online Zoom session imparting mental health awareness to young Kashmiris. Her areas of interest include conflict analysis, mental well-being, and building community-based info

The second issue brings together a diverse cohort of 10 Kashmiri women exploring the theme of 'Militarized Media: Power,...
05/11/2021

The second issue brings together a diverse cohort of 10 Kashmiri women exploring the theme of 'Militarized Media: Power, Propaganda, and Press.'

We are pleased to announce our first group of contributors for the second issue: Dr. Vanessa Chishti, Samreen Mushtaq, and Bisma Bhat.

Dr. Vanessa Chishti is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. Her areas of interest include modern South Asian history, histories of capitalism, Marxist and Feminist political economy, and theories of social reproduction. Her Ph.D. thesis titled 'Articulating Kashmir: Commodity Economy and the Politics of Representation c.1770-1930' offers a historical political economy of modern Kashmir and is currently under revision for publication into a book manuscript of the same title.

Samreen Mushtaq is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University, India, as part of a collaboration with Governing Intimacies, located at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Jamia Millia Islamia, and her research interests include gender, militarisation, and everyday forms of resistance.

Bisma Bhat is a Kashmiri journalist who reports on education, conflict, and crime. She has a Master's degree in Convergent Journalism from Central University of Kashmir. After her Master's, she joined The Kashmir monitor, a local English daily of Kashmir, where she worked for three years. Presently, she is working with the weekly magazine Free Press Kashmir as a feature writer. Her stories have also appeared in news portals such as First Post, Article 14, The Wire, and Gaon connection. She has also been a winner of the Sanjay Ghose Media Award 2020.

The theme for ZW’s second issue is ‘Militarised Media: Power, Propaganda, and Press.’This issue explores the multiple wa...
31/10/2021

The theme for ZW’s second issue is ‘Militarised Media: Power, Propaganda, and Press.’

This issue explores the multiple ways in which media intersects with the conflict and political turmoil in Kashmir. This exploration is not only limited to examining the role of the media but also touches upon the socio-cultural, gendered, economic, political, regional, and technological transformations within which media operates in the region.

The long kept tight reins of the state extend to traditional as well as new media to keep any form of subversion within the ambit of political acceptability. In this context, media is a case study to analyse the myriad ways in which the state enacts, extends and disseminates its propaganda. Any discussion on the media in Kashmir, thus, is simultaneously a discussion on power.

A collection of ten works will aim to expand the theoretical and historical discussion on media, the complex challenges and obstacles in the face of state power and militarisation, and the existing/emerging scholarship navigating these questions.

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In the final episode of season one of The Zanaan Wanaan Podcast, we discuss Sociology and Anthropology as an academic di...
30/04/2021

In the final episode of season one of The Zanaan Wanaan Podcast, we discuss Sociology and Anthropology as an academic discipline in the context of Kashmir. The episode discusses the shift from the colonial origins of this discipline to indigenous knowledge production, incarceration and criminological discourses, research in social work, Kashmiri women's scholarship and methodologies like participant observation, auto-ethnography, phenomenology and long term immersion in the field.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0dtmeOAS2c9AZYG8Un1NCS?si=bUTYJWVDQHOXtbi6UwlZVw&dl_branch=1

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