India’s G20 meetings in Kashmir - camouflaging settler colonialism
Le dimanche 21 mai 2023, à 11h00.
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India’s G20 meetings in Kashmir - camouflaging settler colonialism
Sunday May 21, 2023. 11am Eastern Time
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Introduction:
* Dolores Chew
* Dolores Chew
Panelists:
* Robert Fantina
* Anam Zakaria
* Ather Zia
* Dean Accardi (Moderator)
* Robert Fantina
* Anam Zakaria
* Ather Zia
* Dean Accardi (Moderator)
Bios below.
The intergovernmental forum, G20, is being hosted by India, its current President. As the nineteen member countries and various other stakeholders come together to discuss important issues of global economy, sustainable development, and climate change, India’s role as a host has raised many questions. This expert panel will examine the controversial issue of hosting G20 meetings in an internationally disputed region of Kashmir. Kashmir is subject to settler colonialism, forced and illegal demographic change, expropriation of land, economic extraction, and environmental and ecological degradation by the Indian state. With the Indian state busy in projecting a false normalcy in Kashmir, the reality of everyday Kashmiris subject to gross human rights violations is going unnoticed. The silencing of Kashmiris, particularly suppression of the work of journalists and human rights defenders, and illegal detention and persecution of ordinary Kashmiris must be centered as important nations come together to validate India’s G20 presidency.
The panelists will in particular speak to reasons for boycotting G20 meetings in Kashmir. A short documentary on the current situation in Kashmir precedes the panel.
Take Action (for Canadians): Send a letter to the Canadian Foreign Minister asking Canada boycott G20 meetings in Kashmir: https://actionnetwork.org/.../take-action-canada-must...
Sign the open letter to demand that all G20 member countries and their delegates BOYCOTT the G20 meeting that will be held in Kashmir. https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfFgWq0Z8bKgD.../viewform
*Other important relevant resources:*
Podcast:
What the world needs to know about Kashmir https://podcasts.apple.com/.../speaking.../id1655589688...
What the world needs to know about Kashmir https://podcasts.apple.com/.../speaking.../id1655589688...
Recent articles:
India using the G20 to further settler colonial project https://theconversation.com/india-is-using-the-g20-summit...
India using the G20 to further settler colonial project https://theconversation.com/india-is-using-the-g20-summit...
Is India projecting ‘normalcy’ in Kashmir by holding G20 in Kashmir https://www.aljazeera.com/.../is-india-projecting...
Kashmir, the Ongoing forgotten tragedy https://www.counterpunch.org/.../kashmir-the-forgotten.../
*Bios*
*Dolores Chew* (Introduction)
Dolores Chew is a founding member of Montreal's South Asian Women's Community Centre, teaches history at Marianopolis College and is a Research Associate of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal.
Dolores Chew is a founding member of Montreal's South Asian Women's Community Centre, teaches history at Marianopolis College and is a Research Associate of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal.
*Dean Accardi* (Moderator)
Dean Accardi is Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College. A historian of gender and religion in South Asia, his research re-examines notions of mutually exclusive religions, hybridity, and syncretism; reconceptualizes relationships between religions and other social phenomena: and highlights how historical and religious narratives reconstruct the past to serve socio-political agendas. His current book project, An Ascetic Body Politic, examines depictions of asceticism in histories and hagiographies of sixteenth-century Kashmir and analvzes how bodily practices of saints like Lal Ded and Nund Rishi were used to shape ideas of gender, sainthood, and sovereignty.
Dean Accardi is Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College. A historian of gender and religion in South Asia, his research re-examines notions of mutually exclusive religions, hybridity, and syncretism; reconceptualizes relationships between religions and other social phenomena: and highlights how historical and religious narratives reconstruct the past to serve socio-political agendas. His current book project, An Ascetic Body Politic, examines depictions of asceticism in histories and hagiographies of sixteenth-century Kashmir and analvzes how bodily practices of saints like Lal Ded and Nund Rishi were used to shape ideas of gender, sainthood, and sovereignty.
*Robert Fantina*
Robert Fantina is an author and journalist, working for peace and social justice, and writing extensively about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. His most recent book is Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir. Additionally, he serves on the boards of World BEYOND War, an organization that seeks to end all current wars, and prevent future ones; Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights (CVPR) and Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir (CPJK).
He has spoken on the topic of human rights and related subjects at such diverse places as Washington, D.C.; Shannon, Ireland, and Tehran, Iran.
He is the co-host of the podcast, ‘Geopolitics: Exploring Myth and Realities.’
Robert Fantina is an author and journalist, working for peace and social justice, and writing extensively about U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. His most recent book is Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir. Additionally, he serves on the boards of World BEYOND War, an organization that seeks to end all current wars, and prevent future ones; Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights (CVPR) and Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir (CPJK).
He has spoken on the topic of human rights and related subjects at such diverse places as Washington, D.C.; Shannon, Ireland, and Tehran, Iran.
He is the co-host of the podcast, ‘Geopolitics: Exploring Myth and Realities.’
*Anam Zakaria*
Anam Zakaria is an award-winning author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about violence, memory, narrative making and the construction of the ‘other’. She has authored Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, CBC and Toronto Star as well as several South Asian media outlets. Anam is currently based in Toronto.
Anam Zakaria is an award-winning author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about violence, memory, narrative making and the construction of the ‘other’. She has authored Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, CBC and Toronto Star as well as several South Asian media outlets. Anam is currently based in Toronto.
*Ather Zia*
Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (June 2019) which won the 2020 Gloria Anzaldua Honorable Mention award, 2021 Public Anthropologist Award, and Advocate of the Year Award 2021. She has been featured in the Femilist 2021, a list of 100 women from the Global South working on critical issues. She is the co-editor of Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak (Women Unlimited 2020), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (Upenn 2018) and A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins, May 2019). She has published a poetry collection “The Frame” and another collection is forthcoming. Ather’s ethnographic poetry on Kashmir has won an award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region. Ather is also a co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.
Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Gender Studies program at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley. Ather is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (June 2019) which won the 2020 Gloria Anzaldua Honorable Mention award, 2021 Public Anthropologist Award, and Advocate of the Year Award 2021. She has been featured in the Femilist 2021, a list of 100 women from the Global South working on critical issues. She is the co-editor of Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak (Women Unlimited 2020), Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (Upenn 2018) and A Desolation called Peace (Harper Collins, May 2019). She has published a poetry collection “The Frame” and another collection is forthcoming. Ather’s ethnographic poetry on Kashmir has won an award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. She is the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and is the co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region. Ather is also a co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.
*Co-sponsors*
Academics for Palestine-Concordia, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights, Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir, CERAS (South Asia Forum), CODEPINK, Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms Collective, Free Kashmiri political prisoners, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), India Solidarity Germany - Munich, International Defenders Council, International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), Just Peace Advocates, Justice for All- Canada, Kashmir Law and Justice Project, Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network, Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network, LeftWingBooks.net (Kersplebedeb), Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), People's Health Movement United States, Projet accompagnement solidarité Colombie (PASC), Punjabi Literary and Cultural Association Winnipeg, Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) - Concordia, South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG), South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), Stand with Kashmir, The PolisProject, University Network for Human Rights, World BEYOND War. More being added.
Academics for Palestine-Concordia, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Canadian Voices for Palestinian Rights, Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir, CERAS (South Asia Forum), CODEPINK, Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms Collective, Free Kashmiri political prisoners, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), India Solidarity Germany - Munich, International Defenders Council, International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India), Just Peace Advocates, Justice for All- Canada, Kashmir Law and Justice Project, Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network, Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network, LeftWingBooks.net (Kersplebedeb), Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), People's Health Movement United States, Projet accompagnement solidarité Colombie (PASC), Punjabi Literary and Cultural Association Winnipeg, Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG) - Concordia, South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG), South Asian Diaspora Action Collective (SADAC), Stand with Kashmir, The PolisProject, University Network for Human Rights, World BEYOND War. More being added.
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