Stand with Kashmir have prepared the #KashmirSyllabus, and invaluable and detailed resource for teaching or raising awareness. This is an external resource.
Find the full syllabus here. An overview of the course follows below. To join the Campaign for Kashmir please visit the IHRC Campaign page here.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
#TheKashmirSyllabus compiles a list of sources for teaching and learning about Kashmir. It foregrounds voices, histories, and aspirations of people from within Kashmir, and moves beyond prior scholarship that often took security studies approaches and thereby privileged the statist perspectives of India and Pakistan. This critical body of work on Kashmir allows for a lens into the broader study of the modern state, occupation, nationalism, sovereignty, militarization, social movements, resistance, human rights, international law, and self-determination.
This is an interdisciplinary working syllabus that includes academic scholarship as well as literature, memoirs, and journalistic pieces. It is an incomplete and evolving work in progress. We hope that this syllabus will be used by those within Kashmir studies and beyond, and that it will be useful to academics and non-academics. Although we have minimized repetition across the weekly modules, users are encouraged to think flexibly about how particular readings may also speak to multiple weekly themes across the syllabus.
Syllabus goals:
- To understand how Kashmiris themselves have made sense of their political past, present and future, through work that centers Kashmiri experiences
- To foreground emerging perspectives by Kashmiri scholars, activists and artists, including women and other often marginalized voices
- To widen disciplinary approaches to studying Kashmir, beyond international relations (IR) scholarship, which largely presents Kashmir through the statist lenses of India and Pakistan
- To suggest paths for decolonial, transnational and anti-occupation solidarities among movements for freedom and emancipation, through a close study of the region
This syllabus is certainly not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of resources or readings, but we hope that it will allow for a diverse range of teachable materials for each of the weekly themes. If you have any suggestions for additions to make to this syllabus, please email: thekashmirsyllabus@gmail.com
FIND THE SYLLABUS HERE.
