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Omer Aijazi — “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir”
March 6 @ 10:00 am | Virtual Event
The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir.”
Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Pakistan border. In conversation with a radical humanist anthropology and affect theory, held accountable to Black and Indigenous studies, Aijazi offers a decolonial approach to disaster studies centering not on trauma and rupture but rather on repair—the social labor of creating and maintaining viable life, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation.
Omer Aijazi is a critical disaster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester.
This event is a part of the 2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series.