Necropolitics, Habitus, And The Kashmiri Resistance: We Are Here Still

This book engages the concept of necropolitics to present a vision of how to understand the physical body as a space of power and resistance to social order, in the context of the Kashmir resistance. The author sheds new light on the relations between India and Pakistan, with a focus on tensions over the Kashmir region, in order to better understand the emergence and stabilization of the narrative that criminalizes and thus justifies the population that rebels against state actions in the region. The research draws from archival and interview research and presents the reader with new insight into both conceptual and material dimensions of necropolitics. 

Vinícius Tavares de Oliveira is Assistant Professor in International Relations at PUC Minas campus Poços de Caldas.