Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir

by Ather Zia

Book Overview

In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) keep public attention focused on the 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiri men disappeared by the Indian government forces since 1989. Surrounded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295744987
• ISBN13: 9780295744988
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher