Free Download In Search of Return: Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir By Shifa Haq
2021 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1498582486 | PDF | 2 MB
Beginning in 1989, more than 8,000 men disappeared in Kashmir. These disappearances were publicly denied, leaving mourners to grapple with unrecognized grief. Drawn from ten years of psycho-historical research in Kashmir, Shifa Haq reflects on the bereaved families' intricate experiences of mourning. Haq expands the psychoanalytic understanding of loss and argues for a mourning that includes porous affective links with the political.