Papers by Mohamad Junaid
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Curriculum Inquiry
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South Asian Review, 2021
Abstract This essay reflects on how the dominant US framing of the events of 9/11 was appropriate... more Abstract This essay reflects on how the dominant US framing of the events of 9/11 was appropriated by dominant states to repress struggles for freedom and justice in the name of “global war on terror.” Focusing on India's counterinsurgency war in Kashmir, the essay argues that the India government, led by the rightwing BJP, systematically used the “global war on terror” to advance its anti-Muslim rhetoric, crushing of dissent, and settler-colonial policies in Kashmir.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2020
The discourse of loyalty produces tense predicaments for those living under counterinsurgency reg... more The discourse of loyalty produces tense predicaments for those living under counterinsurgency regimes. The essay explores this theme by analyzing the case of a Kashmiri woman who found herself in a political drama when she accepted “blood money” from the person accused of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its nationalist staging of Kashmiris as the subversive other, and schisms within Kashmir's historical independence movement. By tracing how rumors of individual betrayal were laced onto narratives of political treason in the case, the essay reveals the counterinsurgency as the operative context of broken intimate and intercommunity relations in which the personal is always at the threshold of becoming int...
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Identities, 2019
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Everyday Occupations, 2013
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Resisting Occupation in Kashmir, 2018
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South Asian Review, 2021
This essay reflects on how the dominant US framing of the events of 9/11 was appropriated by domi... more This essay reflects on how the dominant US framing of the events of 9/11 was appropriated by dominant states to repress struggles for freedom and justice in the name of "global war on terror." Focusing on India's counterinsurgency war in Kashmir, the essay argues that the India government, led by the rightwing BJP, systematically used the "global war on terror" to advance its anti-Muslim rhetoric, crushing of dissent, and settler-colonial policies in Kashmir.
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CSAAME, 2020
The discourse of loyalty produces tense predicaments for those living under counterinsurgency reg... more The discourse of loyalty produces tense predicaments for those living under counterinsurgency regimes. The essay explores this theme by analyzing the case of a Kashmiri woman who found herself in a political drama when she accepted “blood money” from the person accused of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its nationalist staging of Kashmiris as the subversive other, and schisms within Kashmir's historical independence movement. By tracing how rumors of individual betrayal were laced onto narratives of political treason in the case, the essay reveals the counterinsurgency as the operative context of broken intimate and intercommunity relations in which the personal is always at the threshold of becoming intensely public.
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The Funambulist, 2020
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A Desolation Called Peace, 2019
On the life and work of Kashmiri short-story writer Akhtar Mohiuddin
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Identities, 2019
This article examines practices of resistance that thwart Indian state's control over everyday li... more This article examines practices of resistance that thwart Indian state's control over everyday life in Kashmir. The state frequently uses 'curfew' to dominate public space, shut down ordinary mobility, and suppress pro-independence politics. Curfews are enforced through punitive prohibitions and by activating the militarised infrastructure built to reinforce Indian rule over the region since 1947. Yet, Kashmiris are not passive objects of this control. Through overt and hidden practices of resistance and disobedience, like sangbāzi and, what I call, counter-mapping, they keep their aspirations for independence alive, while rebuilding a semblance of everydayness under the occupation. Desire to walk freely becomes the key metaphor for freedom from military control. Based on ethnographic and theoretical material, the article makes a case that in spaces under long-term military occupations political subjectivity is primarily expressed and enacted as a bodily demand to become visible in public space.
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The Funambulist, 2019
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Talks by Mohamad Junaid
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Public Engagement by Mohamad Junaid
We Be Imagining Podcast
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at MCLA, Mohamad Junaid and Lafaye... more Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at MCLA, Mohamad Junaid and Lafayette College Assistant Professor, Hafsa Kanjwal join the WBI show to discuss the the acceleration of the settler colonial project in Kashmir and the continued fight for Azadi or self-determination. The Indian BJP government’s recent passage of the domicile law in Jammu and Kashmir is a move towards ethnically cleansing the occupied territory. Last November, Indian Consul General in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty advocated for this law in order to introduce “Israeli model” settlements into Kashmir.“I don’t keep calm, I’m continuously in outrage, I don’t have any spiritual solace, I don’t have any calm, everyday is like a new mourning.” Junaid shares- yet finds hope in Kashmiri writers, activists and artists a generation removed from state sanctioned illiteracy now documenting the desire and struggle for national liberation to the rest of the world.
“Bollywood is India’s kind of wet dream...Initially kind of creating this desire for the beautiful landscape without any regard for the local ‘ignorant people they needed to modernize’”- Kanjwal provocatively comments, drawing out the sophisticated ways in which Hindu nationalist culture legitimizes the state sanctioned erasure and potentially the extermination of the Kashmiri people.
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Home Page: https://watson.brown.edu/events/2018/hafsa-kanjwal-and-mohamad-junaid-state-and-political-subjectivity-kashmir
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Public Engagement by Mohamad Junaid
“Bollywood is India’s kind of wet dream...Initially kind of creating this desire for the beautiful landscape without any regard for the local ‘ignorant people they needed to modernize’”- Kanjwal provocatively comments, drawing out the sophisticated ways in which Hindu nationalist culture legitimizes the state sanctioned erasure and potentially the extermination of the Kashmiri people.
Home Page: https://watson.brown.edu/events/2018/hafsa-kanjwal-and-mohamad-junaid-state-and-political-subjectivity-kashmir
Watch here: https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=2ab530a4-b834-4fc8-a05f-a8d6010b3872
“Bollywood is India’s kind of wet dream...Initially kind of creating this desire for the beautiful landscape without any regard for the local ‘ignorant people they needed to modernize’”- Kanjwal provocatively comments, drawing out the sophisticated ways in which Hindu nationalist culture legitimizes the state sanctioned erasure and potentially the extermination of the Kashmiri people.