‘We will memorise our home’: exploring settler colonialism as an interpretive framework for Kashmir
‘We will memorise our home’: exploring settler colonialism as an interpretive framework for Kashmir
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“我们将记住我们的家园”：探索定居者殖民主义作为克什米尔的解释框架
作者：
Samreen Mushtaq;Mudasir Amin
在本文中，我们研究了印度在定居者殖民主义框架下对克什米尔的军事占领的做法，以描绘其在维持控制和对抗Azaadi（自由）斗争中的根深蒂固的性质。2019年8月5日之后，当印度政府继续宣读赋予克什米尔永久居民对土地和工作的专有权的法律时，学者和活动人士指出，这是印度定居者消除逻辑的进步。在本文中，我们将其轨迹复杂化，并将这些最近的实践作为长期过程的一部分进行追踪，包括空间、人口和生态表现，这些表现现在正在进一步深化和扩展此类项目的控制特征矩阵。这篇论文认为，虽然定居者殖民主义可以作为克什米尔的一个重要解释框架，并使其对国际观众来说更加清晰，但对未来印度公民定居者的依赖有可能使已经永久驻扎在克什米尔并占领大片土地的印度武装部队隐形。如果将同化主义和消灭主义策略的巧妙结合置于军事占领的框架内，而不是作为一种独特的替代方案，那么定居者殖民框架对克什米尔来说可能是一个有用的概念。
Abstract In this article, we examine the practices of India’s military occupation of Kashmir in the framework of settler colonialism to map its entrenched nature in sustaining control and countering the struggle for Azaadi (freedom). Post 5 August 2019, when the Indian state proceeded with a reading down of the laws that enabled Kashmir’s permanent residents exclusive rights over land and jobs, scholars and activists noted it to be an advancement of India’s settler logic of elimination. In this essay, we complicate its trajectory and trace these recent practices as part of long drawn processes including spatial, demographic and ecological manifestations that are now further deepening and expanding a matrix of control characteristic of such a project. The paper argues that while settler colonialism could be used as a crucial interpretive framework for Kashmir and make it legible for an international audience, the reliance on a future Indian-citizen-settler runs the risk of invisibilising the Indian armed forces already permanently stationed in Kashmir and occupying vast tracts of land. The settler colonial framework can be a useful concept for Kashmir when its shrewd combination of assimilationist and eliminationist tactics is placed within the framework of military occupation, rather than as a distinct alternative.