III and IICRR Public Lecture Dr Dibyesh Anand

 The next lecture in the Ireland India Institute Public Lecture Series will be a joint lecture with the Institute of International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction

Speaker: Dr Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster

Lecture Title: "Kashmir: Conflicting Narratives, Persistent Dehumanisation"

Venue: HG05, Nursing Building, DCU

Date: Monday 9 March 2015

Time: 2:30pm

RSVP: India@dcu.ie

All welcome to this Public Lecture.

Further detail:

While Kashmir is known primarily as a site of territorial dispute between India and Pakistan and there are conflicting narratives around the dispute, a persistent dehumanisation has been the most conspicuous characteristic of the conflict in the region. Practices of dehumanisation allow the existing nation-states to go against the principles of democracy, human rights and self-determination and enable epistemic, cultural, political and corporeal violence on the Kashmiri body politic. What are the conflicting narratives about Kashmir? Are they permanently irreconcilable? Is the dehumanisation of Kashmiris by India mainly a product of armed insurgency in the Kashmir valley in the 1990s or is it an integral part of Indian rule over Kashmiris? What forms of dehumanisation and violence have been deployed by the nation-states to control the people? These are some of the questions that will be dealt with during the lecture.

Speaker:

Dr Dibyesh Anand is a Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster in London. He has degrees from St Stephen's College, Delhi University (BA History Hons), University of Hull (MA) and University of Bristol (Phd). He is the author of monographs Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination, Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics, and Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear and has published a number of chapters in edited collections and articles in journals on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindutva and Islamophobia, identity politics in Tanzania, and nationalism. He is an avid facebooker and available at www.facebook.com/dibyesh 

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