{"product_id":"contemporary-colonialities-kurds-and-kashmiris-paperback","title":"Contemporary Colonialities: Kurds and Kashmiris - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDibyesh Anand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNitasha Kaul\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e We live in a world dominated by states and statist knowledge; this is a world where, for multiple institutional and political reasons, it is rare to speak of more than one stateless nation, and there is a conspicuous neglect of non-Western colonial practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This volume brings together scholarship on two peoples associated with 'conflict' but who we argue are best described as 'stateless nations' Kurds and Kashmiris. Both these contexts raise important questions relating to coloniality, sovereignty, statehood, self-determination and human rights, and yet they have never been studied together. Our intervention challenges the 'sovereignty privilege' in International Relations and calls upon postcolonial and decolonial studies to take anti-colonialism seriously by focusing on contemporary stateless nations. The Kurdish and Kashmiri conflicts are more than power-laden contestations by states over territories; they are colonialities of power experienced by embodied individuals and involve mobilised communities of stateless nations with different gendered and political vulnerabilities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This book addresses the complex issue of colonialism and nationalism among the Kurds who live in Turkey and the Kashmiris who live in the valley of Kashmir. For those wishing to understand the respective political, religious and social challenges of both groups, this book is essential reading.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Schofield, author of \u003ci\u003eKashmir in the Crossfire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKashmir in Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Dibyesh Anand is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Westminster and professor of international relation. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTibet: A Victim of Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Professor Nitasha Kaul is Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster. Her books include \u003ci\u003eImagining Economics Otherwise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFuture Tense\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eResidue\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCan You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 142\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42329362530439,"sku":"9781915445254","price":18.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/86f6421ce8835e35b5182d5ed95a2d91.webp?v=1739347387","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/contemporary-colonialities-kurds-and-kashmiris-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}