Table of Contents

Healing the Forest
—Cheran Rudhramoorthy
Introduction: Everyday Occupations
—Kamala Visweswaran
Chapter 1. Qırıx: An "Inverted Rhapsody" on Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbakı
—Serap Ruken Sengul
Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka
—Sandya Hewamanne
Chapter 3. Grounding Militarism: Structures of Feeling and Force in Gilgit-Baltistan
—Nosheen Ali
Chapter 4. Stateless Citizens and Menacing Men: Notes on the Occupation of Palestinians Inside Israel
—Rhoda Kanaaneh
Chapter 5. Indigenous Women and Culture in the Colonized Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
—Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill
Chapter 6. Death and Life Under Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir
—Mohamad Junaid
Chapter 7. The Missing Grave of Sheikh Said: Kurdish Formations of Memory, Place, and Sovereignty in Turkey
—Hisyar Oszoy
Afterword: Refining the Optic of Occupation
—Richard Falk
Some Day
—Kabita Chakma
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination.

About the Author

Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin, and author most recently of Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference and Perspectives on Modern South Asia.

Reviews

"Colonial-style occupations, counter-insurgencies and militarized zones scar the face of much of South Asia and the Middle East. But what specific forms does such everyday violence assume in the postcolonial reality of sovereign nation-states? This indispensable volume offers some brilliant and disturbing answers."
*Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire*

"In questioning and subverting conventional definitions and ingrained assumptions about the nature of occupation, this exciting and refreshing collection drives us towards a much richer and fuller understanding. These essays express the highest form of intellectual and political commitment, one that does not hesitate to speak the truth of our moment."
*Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles*

"The authors' in-depth local analyses, together with an awareness of cross-regional echoes and resonances of cultures of occupation, are inspiring. The reader is drawn immediately into the reality of a globalizing popular culture of life under occupation."
*Alex Pillen, University College, London*