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- academia, 12, 158, 171, 173, 210–11, 217; anthropology, 5, 29–30, 182, 200, 203–6, 216, 219n4; area studies, 14, 213–14; citational politics in, 205, 207, 212, 240n5; colonialism in, 36, 179, 202–9, 212, 214–16, 227n6, 240n5; disability studies, 69, 169, 239n21; disaster studies, 5, 18–19, 64, 219n1; epistemic violence, 8, 15, 18–19, 37, 179, 202–3, 212, 219n1, 240n5; queer studies, 207, 212; researcher identity in, 18, 149, 182, 185–88, 196–97, 205–6, 218. See also Black epistemologies; Brown epistemologies; ethnography; Indigenous epistemologies
- accountability, 5, 63, 100; to Allah, 116; as alternative to disciplines, 202–11, 216–17; citational practices and, 212; in families, 76, 81, 91, 162; insurgent aesthetics and, 23–24; Pakistan’s refusal of, 61, 211; of readers, 25–27, 171, 179, 189–90, 214; of researchers, 23, 29, 197, 205–8
- affective ecologies, 16, 49, 53, 58–59, 133
- affective labor, 9, 13, 63–65, 83–84, 179; of care, 99–100, 160–63, 170, 172, 181, 193, 216; of kindness, 90–91, 100–102
- Afropessimism, 7
- agencies, state intelligence, 39, 141–42, 144, 152; Research and Analysis Wing (India), 205–6
- agency, 12, 14, 56, 105, 124, 126; Divine, 128, 172; obstructed, 133
- a/geography, 223n91
- Ahmed, Sara, 10, 17–18, 23, 188, 206
- AJK (Azad Jammu and Kashmir), 15, 38, 56, 227n6
- Alexander, M. Jacqui, 22, 129
- Ali, Nosheen, 82, 111, 144
- aliveness, 101, 111, 181, 186, 190; aesthetics of, 10–11
- Allison, Anne, 64–65
- altitude sickness, 124–25
- al-Zaidi, Muntadhar, 31
- analytical restraint, 26
- Anderson, Ben, 6, 64
- Anderson, Simon, 105
- anger, 41, 133–35, 145, 148, 154–55, 165, 179, 237n23, 237n29
- Anjaria, Jonathan, 12
- Anjaria, Ulka, 12
- anthropology, 200, 203–6, 216; as accountability, 216–8; fire-loving, 29–30; radical humanism and, 5, 219n4; supranthropology, 182; use of “we,” 29
- antiblackness, 7
- anticolonial resistance, 8–9, 14, 31, 133–34, 140, 201, 236n11, 237n29; in academia, 36, 203–4, 207, 215, 227n6; sonic register of, 25. See also decolonization
- Anzaldúa, Gloria, 16, 103, 222n62
- Appadurai, Arjun, 82
- area studies, 14, 213–14
- Arif, Yasmeen, 8
- Aristotle, 11–12, 125
- asceticism, 110, 120–22, 125
- Aslam, Shahzad, 37–38, 41, 50
- assemblage, 22–23, 55, 82, 133
- Attia, Kader, 9
- azadi (freedom), 4, 37, 213, 217
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), 15, 38, 56, 227n6
- Bakarwal people, 54–55, 132
- Baldwin, James, 154
- Banerjee, Milinda, 36
- Baxi, Pratiksha, 231n60
- Beckett, Greg, 5
- Behar, Ruth, 187–88
- behekein (community-owned shelters), 47–48
- Berger, Peter, 128
- Berlant, Lauren, 8, 11, 64–65, 83, 134–35, 189, 231n46
- betrayal, 56, 82, 151, 189, 193; of the body, 65, 78, 85; disaster as, 64–65, 84–85; in friendship, 20, 41, 63, 65, 69, 85, 104, 127; by researchers, 185, 205–6
- Bhan, Mona, 179
- Bhungalia, Lisa, 97
- Bialecki, John, 128
- Birke, Lynda, 50
- Black bodies, 36, 148, 179, 190–91, 199; in anthropology, 29–30; endurance of, 7–11
- Black epistemologies, 5, 7, 10–11, 36, 179, 206, 212–14, 230n26
- Black radicalism, 7, 208
- Blanchot, Maurice, 63
- Blaney, David, 55
- blindness, 158–65
- Bonilla, Yarimar, 17, 65
- borderland: as contradiction, 16; as hybridity, 16; as opening, 16. See also newness
- borders, 4–5, 17, 55, 58, 150, 179, 201, 204, 211; conflict across, 6, 52–53, 92–94, 99, 103; created by land mines, 47, 50, 54; military checkpoints, 14, 16, 18, 42, 54, 154; as theater, 41. See also Line of Control (LoC); maps; topographical awareness
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 180
- breath and breathing, 5, 11, 28–30, 91, 107–8, 127, 149, 154–55; altitude sickness, 124–25; Blackness and, 148–49, 199; combat breathing, 9; space for, 17, 23, 203, 216; suffocation and, 5, 18, 23, 39, 133
- British rule, 201, 223n98, 236n11
- Brown bodies, 8–9, 29–30
- Brown epistemologies, 204, 212, 222n62, 230n26
- Brown, Steven, 7
- Brown, Wendy, 106
- Brownlie, Julie, 105
- Bush, George W., 31–32
- Butler, Judith, 170, 187
- Butterwick, Shauna, 149
- Butz, David, 44
- Campt, Tina, 23, 25, 152
- capitalism, 36, 74, 133, 173–74; racial, 208–9, 219n1
- carceral logics: of imperial knowledge production, 212; of South Asia, 5
- cartographic rules, 14–15, 36–37, 59, 217. See also maps
- Cavell, Stanley, 111
- center/margin binary, 15–17, 55
- Chadwick, Rachelle, 186
- Chakravarti, Sonali, 134
- Chen, Tina, 223n91
- Chin, Elizabeth, 29
- chronicity, 5, 14, 20, 158, 168. See also temporality and time
- Chua, Eu Jin, 133
- Circle’s Conspiracy of Writers, The, 204
- citational politics, 205, 207, 212, 240n5
- citizenship, 55–56, 82, 194, 196, 215; in academia, 182, 203–7; biological, 72; self-designation of, 16–17; spiritual, 111, 127–28; strengthened by kindness, 105–6
- Clare, Eli, 169
- Clark, Nigel, 183–84
- Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 219n4
- Cobley, Paul, 20
- Cole, Alyson, 102–3
- colonialism, 11, 22, 27, 65, 135, 152, 155, 171, 182–83; in academia, 36, 179, 202–9, 212, 214–16, 227n6, 240n5; borders and, 13–15, 36, 53, 55–57, 92, 150; sonic register of, 25; Urdu and, 28. See also settler colonialism; anticolonial resistance; decolonization
- community-based organizations (CBOs), 75. See also humanitarian aid
- Connerton, Paul, 165
- Cook, Nancy, 44
- Cooper, Timothy, 6
- Cordis, Shanya, 207
- COVID-19 pandemic, 174
- Cowen, Deborah, 206
- Cox, Jessie, 199
- Craig, Sienna, 171
- Crawley, Ashon, 107
- crip (term), 239n21
- crip time, 173
- cruel optimism, 82, 231n46
- culinary traditions, 26, 87, 122–23, 136, 153, 164; author positionality and, 48–49, 87, 149–50, 177, 196–97; emplacement and, 53, 73–74, 78–80, 117, 192–94, 197, 200; gender and, 49–50, 53, 76–78, 195–96; kitchens, 24, 130, 195–98; tandoor, 78–80, 194. See also food
- Cvetkovich, Ann, 187
- Dahl, Ulrika, 187
- dam (healing), 125, 152, 163
- damage-centered research, 28
- Das, Veena, 65, 111, 187, 231n43
- Dave, Naisargi, 21–22
- Day, Ally, 167, 169
- deBergh Robinson, Cabeiri, 36
- decolonization, 17, 30, 129, 212, 215–16; of anthropology, 204–7. See also anticolonial resistance
- Deleuze, Gilles, 13, 58
- Derrida, Jacques, 125
- de Sousa Santos, Boaventura, 240n5
- de Villiers, Nicholas, 171–72
- Diprose, Rosalyn, 184
- disability, 21, 47, 65, 67–72, 77–79, 81–85, 158–71, 231n42, 239n21
- disability studies, 69, 169, 239n21
- disaster studies, 5, 18–19, 64, 219n1
- displacement camps, 108, 139–41, 150–51, 164, 245n1
- Dodd, James, 230n35
- Dogra rule, 15, 134, 223n98, 236n11
- Dorries, Heather, 214
- Dossa, Parin, 200
- Driskill, Qwo-Li, 207
- dua (prayers), 108, 125
- Du Bois, W.E.B., 36
- Durban, Erin, 69
- dysphoria, 65, 69, 133
- earthquakes, 79, 108, 138–39; altering relationships, 15, 73, 77, 80, 84–85, 120, 150, 160–61; in Haiti, 15, 69; humanitarian aid and, 42–44, 74–76, 110, 112–15, 119, 150, 170; ongoing violence of, 6, 20, 51, 64–65, 69, 78, 93, 158–59, 164–66, 168–71; temporality and, 65, 68, 80, 84–85; Tōhoku, 64–65
- Edelman, Lee, 135
- education, 103, 134, 137, 141; gender and, 96, 198–99; for teaching certification, 68–72, 81–86, 172
- Eid, 120, 165, 235n13
- emplacement, 5, 16, 26, 103, 105–6, 182–83, 211, 219n2; culinary traditions and, 53, 73–74, 78–80, 117, 192–94, 197, 200; illaqa and, 37, 50, 53; traditional lands acknowledgment, 215–16; via family, 91–93, 159–62, 167
- employment, 114, 117, 128, 132, 146, 149, 154–55, 196; in the army, 143–45, 147–48; for day wages, 161, 199; disability and, 70–72, 81–82, 172; food-for-work schemes, 44; in healthcare, 95–100, 103–4; humanitarian jobs, 75; migratory patterns and, 16, 71, 228n14
- English language, 29, 145–46, 212
- epistemic violence, 8, 15, 18–19, 37, 179, 202–3, 212, 219n1, 240n5
- ethnography, 15, 20–21, 24, 26, 55, 128, 171, 205–6; accountability and, 185, 187–88, 195, 203; of violence and repair, 6, 56
- exhaustion, 9, 13, 84, 132–33, 154–55, 204; care labor and, 100, 181; as dissent, 13
- Faas, A.J., 18
- Fanon, Frantz, 9, 133
- Fassin, Didier, 157
- Feldman, Allen, 165
- Ferguson, James, 16
- Fernandes, Leela, 129
- flooding, 4, 20, 42–44, 51, 74–75, 94–95, 138–39, 216
- flourishing, 5, 10, 12, 26, 86, 104, 152, 154, 170, 190; and heartwork, 27; and pahari life, 16; and survival, 11, 173–74; and ugly feelings, 133, 155
- Flowers, Rachel, 237n29
- food, 24, 42, 77, 123, 130, 164, 175; author positionality and, 48–49, 87, 149–50, 177, 196–97; costs of, 93, 116, 137; desi murghi, 51, 149–50; emplacement through, 53, 73–74, 80, 192–94, 200; ghee (clarified butter), 50, 73–74, 116, 177; jangli pyaz (wild onions), 49–50, 53, 57; maize, 43, 54, 114, 117–18, 164, 230n28; makayi ki roti, 117–18, 235n11; milk supply, 49–50, 73, 110, 116, 120; sonchal, 192, 198; tandoor, 78–80; food-for-work jobs, 44; World Food Program, 151, 167. See also culinary traditions
- Foucault, Michel, 126
- Freire, Paulo, 83
- Fricker, Miranda, 19
- friendship, 21, 133, 136, 155; with Allah, 111, 121–28, 172; betrayal in, 20, 41, 63–65, 69–71, 85; competition for resources in, 74–75; at displacement camps, 108, 140–41; loyalty and, 119–20; sovereignty and, 109, 125–28, 149–51
- futures and futurity, 9, 11, 25–28, 36–37, 90, 174, 223n97; betrayal and, 81–84; breath as, 107; culinary traditions and, 200; disciplines and, 204, 213–15, 217–18; emergent iterations of, 230n26; multiplicity of, 52–53, 66–67, 84, 169; spirituality and, 166–67. See also open normativities; newness
- gender, 40–44, 75, 108, 181, 224n121, 230n38, 231n59; culinary traditions and, 49–50, 53, 76–78, 195–96; dysphoria, 69; education and, 96, 198–99; feminization of care, 99–100, 103; language and, 227n11, 229n1, 232n1, 235n14; migratory patterns and, 47–51, 71, 228n14
- gharibi (poverty), 121–22
- Ghazali, 178, 180
- gifts, 20, 40, 87, 93; of Allah, 111, 114, 125, 163, 167; eating as, 194–95; heartwork and, 187, 189–90; humanitarian aid, 75, 77; of humor, 96–97; knowledge as, 182–84, 186; small gestures as, 89–91, 100–102, 104–7
- Glancy, Diane, 174
- Glissant, Édouard, 158
- Gordon, Avery, 79, 170
- Govindrajan, Radhika, 50
- Graeber, David, 66
- Griffero, Tonino, 10
- Guattari, Félix, 26
- Guibert, Hervé, 63
- Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 5, 173, 191, 202
- Gupta, Akhil, 16
- Hage, Ghassan, 83
- Häkli, Jouni, 105
- Halberstam, Jack, 173
- Hall, Tom, 90
- Hamdy, Sherine, 172
- Haraway, Donna, 186
- Hardt, Michael, 134–35
- Harney, Stefano, 20, 208
- Harrison, Paul, 12
- Hartman, Saidiya, 7
- Hayat, Javaid, 227n6
- healthcare, 152, 167, 169, 231n42; barriers to, 83, 146–48, 150, 154, 163; facilities, 95–96; midwifery, 89, 93–98, 100, 103, 106; outsourced to military, 99, 144–48. See also dam (healing)
- heartache, 26, 179–80, 186–87, 189–90. See also heartwork
- heart warfare, 179. See also heartwork
- heartwork, 20, 27, 186–89, 193, 217. See also heartache
- heteronormativity, 41–42, 224n121. See also gender
- Hindko, 28
- Hindu Pandits, 179, 211
- Holmes, Cindy, 216
- hooks, bell, 15, 237n29
- housing, 42, 53, 84, 93, 112, 123, 127–28, 159–62, 164; anticipatory structures, 94; behekein (community-owned shelters), 47–48; gender and, 76–77, 230n38; guesthouses, 42, 56, 94, 135–36, 138, 150–51, 153–54; kacha houses, 113–15, 235n8; pakka houses, 115, 235n10
- humanitarian aid, 127, 139, 159, 170, 179; building pathways, 43–47; competition for, 74–77, 230n36; refusal of, 110, 112, 115, 119
- human rights violations, 14, 206, 211; state narratives of, 38–39
- Hunt, Sarah, 216
- Ihmoud, Sarah, 207
- illaqa (territory), 37–38, 50–51, 53, 55–56, 58, 93
- iman (faith), 112, 123–24
- imperialism, 11, 22, 30, 174, 217; knowledge production and, 158, 203, 206, 212, 214–15, 240n5
- Inayatullah, Naeem, 55
- India, 47, 50, 52, 61, 101, 138–39, 227n7, 246n30; granting semiautonomous status, 210–11; India–Pakistan war (1971), 36, 179; military occupation of Kashmir, 4, 13–15, 38–39, 54–56, 92–93, 99, 133, 179, 205; Pakistan–India cease-fire (2003), 4, 40–41; Partition, 133–34, 194, 201, 231n43, 236n11, 245n1; Research and Analysis Wing, 205–6; UN-mandated plebiscite, 36–37, 213, 223n97
- Indigenous bodies, 7, 191, 215, 237n29; in anthropology, 29–30; endurance of, 8–9, 174
- Indigenous epistemologies, 5, 36, 179, 182, 206–7, 212–15, 227n6, 240n5; Turtle Island, 215, 248n12; women’s resistance and, 237n29
- infrastructure, lack of, 16, 43–44, 66, 76, 82, 86, 146–47. See also microinfrastructures
- Ingold, Tim, 3, 193, 200
- Ingraham, Chris, 107
- insurgent aesthetics, 23–24
- interludes, 1, 31–34, 60, 62; about, 25–26; in Epilogue, 175, 177, 218; following scenes, 87, 108, 130, 156
- Iraq, US invasion of, 31
- Irigaray, Luce, 170, 216
- Islamic traditions, 81–82, 128, 234n1; Eid, 120, 165, 235n13; iman (faith), 112, 123–24; jinns, 38, 227n8; Khuda, 112–13, 116, 121, 235n7; madrassas (seminaries), 110, 120, 123, 235n12; prayer in, 67–69, 86, 98, 124–25, 167, 173; Rabb, 112–13, 161, 234n6; sabr (forbearance), 163, 167, 172–73; Suleman, 38, 227n8; tawakkul (reliance on Allah), 123–24. See also Muslim identity
- kacha houses, 113–15, 235n8
- Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina, 105
- Kanjwal, Hafsa, 211, 214
- Kanngieser, Anja, 182–83
- Kapadia, Ronak, 23
- Kargil, Kashmir, 179
- Karrar, Hasan, 55
- Khan, Ambreen Nawaz, 80, 169–70, 172
- Khan, Mubashir Nawaz, 112, 124, 128
- Khayyat, Munira, 219n6
- Kim, Junyoung Verónica, 203
- kindness, 21, 44, 77, 112, 113–14, 159; humor as, 96–97; in small gestures, 88–91, 97, 99–107
- Kirsch, Gesa, 149
- Kleinman, Arthur, 53, 165–66
- Kleinman, Joan, 165–66
- Krog, Antjie, 171
- Kyriakopoulos, Leandros, 205
- land mines, 47, 50, 54
- land ownership, 75, 95, 140–42, 150–51, 223n98; farming and, 53–54, 114, 117, 123, 164, 204; traditional lands acknowledgment, 215
- Lather, Patti, 187
- Lau, Kimberly, 135
- Levinas, Emmanuel, 125
- Lewis, C. S., 125
- liberalism, 9, 29, 82, 84, 90, 105, 134, 204, 230n26. See also neoliberalism
- Liboiron, Max, 240n5
- Line of Control (LoC), 4, 40–41, 210–11, 213, 217; creation of, 36–37; identity and, 52–54; resistance at, 61, 92–93, 133–34; seasonal migrations near, 47–48, 50; violated by the landscape, 15–16, 227n7
- Ling, L. M. H., 179
- Lionnet, Françoise, 203
- listening to images, 25
- Lorde, Audre, 19, 24, 133, 174, 184–85, 191, 207
- Loureiro, Miguel, 84
- Lund, Katrín Anna, 193
- Macharia, Keguro, 191, 203, 213
- MacLure, Maggie, 187
- madrassas (seminaries), 110, 120, 123, 235n12
- mahaul (atmosphere), 6, 8
- Mahmood, Saba, 12
- makayi ki roti, 117–18, 235n11
- male gaze, 47. See also gender
- maliyan (pastures), 47–51, 79
- Mani, Lata, 23
- Manning, Rita, 181
- Manto, Saadat Hasan, 245n1
- maps, 13, 15, 35, 37, 59, 82, 90, 166, 168–71. See also borders; cartographic rules; Line of Control (LoC); topographical awareness
- Marino, Elizabeth, 18
- Marks, Laura, 226n146
- Massumi, Brian, 77, 187
- mazaa (pleasure or joy), 12–13, 26. See also joy
- Mbembe, Achille, 107
- McGown, Rima Berns, 157–58
- McGregor, Deborah, 183
- McKittrick, Katherine, 14, 19, 179, 182, 189, 203
- McMullin, Irene, 12
- Meah, Angela, 200
- memory, 36, 154, 160, 164, 168; bodily, 91, 96, 158, 165–67; grief and, 80, 98, 100, 133; landholdings and, 54
- methodology of book, 5, 16–20, 24–26, 28, 36
- Meyer, Manulani Aluli, 185
- microinfrastructures, 43, 46, 77
- migratory patterns, 15, 54–55, 93; gender and, 47–51, 71, 228n14
- Million, Dian, 174
- Minai, Naveen, 200
- Ministry of Health, 95
- Mittermaier, Amira, 128
- mobile phones, 52, 136–37, 144, 150
- mobility, 16, 51–54, 91; disability and, 67–71, 77–79, 83–85, 159–63, 167; gendering of, 40, 43–44, 47, 103. See also topographical awareness
- Mol, Annemarie, 199–200
- Moraga, Cherríe, 222n62
- more-than-human entanglements, 37, 48–53, 56, 58–59, 182, 207
- Morrison, Toni, 173, 190
- Mostowlansky, Till, 55
- Moten, Fred, 20, 148–49, 208
- mujahideen (freedom fighters), 62, 92–93, 99
- Mulla, Sameena, 29, 231n60
- Muñoz, José Esteban, 53
- musafir (traveler), 121
- Muslim identity, 82, 178–79, 201, 210, 223n98; iman (faith) and, 112, 123–24; prayer and, 67–69, 86, 98, 124–25, 167, 173; purdah (cover) and, 43, 227n11; relationship with Allah and, 81, 83, 108, 110–17, 119–28, 143, 161–64, 166–67, 172; sabr (forbearance) and, 163, 167, 172–73; spiritual rewards and, 89, 98, 120, 127. See also Islamic traditions
- Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, 58, 140–41, 147, 150, 153
- Myers, Natasha, 200
- Nagar, Richa, 20, 185
- Narayan, Kirin, 189
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, 180
- Neelum River, 38, 41, 227n7
- neoliberalism, 127, 206, 235n9
- newness, 66, 102, 112, 174. See also futures and futurity; open normativities
- Ngai, Sianne, 132–33
- Nixon, Linda, 14
- Nixon, Rob, 158
- nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 18–19, 42, 44–45, 77, 112, 119. See also humanitarian aid
- nonsovereign relationalities, 135, 149–52
- normativity, 11, 66, 71, 82, 100, 134, 169–70, 172; in academia, 5, 203–6; gendering the environment and, 42–44; heterosexual, 41–42, 224n121; of inherited knowledge, 26–27; in Islam, 111, 124, 234n1; pahari refusal of, 21–22.
- normopaths, 26–27
- Nussbaum, Martha, 134
- Nyong’o, Tavia, 22
- Page, Tiffany, 187–88
- pahars (mountainscapes), 5–8, 11–12, 90, 105–6, 108, 110, 124, 203; author positionality and, 18–21, 37, 40, 57, 185, 188, 193–94, 216; borders and (see borders; Line of Control); education in, 68–72, 81–86, 96, 103, 134, 137, 141, 172, 198–99; food and cooking in (see culinary traditions; food); housing in (see housing); infrastructure in, 16, 43–44, 46, 66, 73, 76–77, 82, 86, 93, 136–38, 142; jobs in (see employment); language of, 28–29, 54, 138, 219n2; living with disabilities in, 47, 65, 67–72, 77–79, 81–85, 158–71, 231n42; migratory patterns in, 15, 47–51, 54–55, 71, 93, 228n14; military checkpoints in, 14, 16, 18, 42, 54, 154; navigation of (see mobility; topographical awareness); Neelum River, 38, 41, 227n7; state narratives of, 13–16, 36–38, 53–54, 57, 93, 99, 141, 144, 150–52, 197; tourism in, 18, 38, 40–42, 94, 137, 146, 150–51, 153
- Pakistan, 13, 49, 56, 58, 149, 152, 155, 211, 213; Human Rights Commission, 38; identity and, 18, 37–38, 40–41, 82, 137–39, 194, 196–97, 201–2, 215, 235n12, 245n1; India–Pakistan war (1971), 36, 179; Islamabad, 18, 37–38, 40, 44, 108, 136, 139, 143, 145–46, 148, 151, 202; Lahore, 67, 137–39, 143, 145–47, 150, 245n1; migratory patterns and, 47, 228n14; military of, 61, 92–93, 99, 114–15, 131, 139, 141–42, 144, 147; Neelum River and, 227n7; Pakistan–India cease-fire (2003), 4, 40–41; Partition, 133–34, 194, 201, 231n43, 236n11, 245n1; Rawalpindi, 39, 52, 95, 139, 147, 150, 216; Red Crescent Society, 47; similarities between Northern region and Kashmir, 15, 17, 28, 54–55, 139
- pakka houses, 115, 235n10
- panchi (flight birds), 138
- Paperson, La, 13
- Partition, India–Pakistan, 133–34, 194, 201, 231n43, 236n11, 245n1
- Peppers, Cathy, 29
- Philo, Chris, 12
- plebiscite, 36–37, 213, 223n97
- poetic knowledges, 111–13, 158
- Pollock, Anne, 180–81
- Povinelli, Elizabeth, 83
- protests, 31, 140, 207, 236n11, 246n11; Yaum-e-Siyah, 133–34
- Puar, Jasbir, 22
- Punjabi language, 28–29
- purdah (cover), 43, 227n11, 228n12
- radical humanism, 5, 219n4
- Rankine, Claudia, 154
- rasanblaj (gathering), 22–23
- Rechtman, Richard, 157
- reciprocity, 74, 82, 104, 120–22, 125, 149, 151, 187; and gift-giving, 183–85; and kindness, 90, 101
- repair, 5, 13, 15, 22, 27, 56, 66–67, 205; atemporality of, 166, 169; body as site of, 8–10, 78–79, 83–85; linked to ugly feelings, 133, 135, 155; ordinariness of, 158–59; of the social, 126–27; spirituality and, 86, 129; through small gestures, 90–91, 99–107
- Research and Analysis Wing (India), 205–6
- researcher identity, 18, 149, 182, 185–88, 196–97, 218; transparency and, 205–6
- resistance, anticolonial, 8–9, 14, 31, 133–34, 140, 201, 236n11, 237n29; in academia, 36, 203–4, 207, 215, 227n6; sonic register of, 25. See also decolonization
- Richter-Devroe, Sophie, 134
- Rizwan, Rakhshan, 57
- Roach, Tom, 126
- Roy, Arundhati, 35–37, 57, 174
- Ruddick, Sue, 214
- rurality, 4, 15–16, 47, 95, 123
- sabr (forbearance), 163, 167, 172–73
- Sahlins, Marshall, 212
- Said, Edward, 202
- Salaita, Steven, 17
- Salih, Ruba, 134
- Samuels, Annemarie, 168
- Schielke, Samuli, 110, 128
- Schild, Pascale, 150
- Sedgwick, Eve, 171
- Sehri, 45, 91–92
- Seker, Mehmet Yavuz, 180
- sensuous knowing, 12, 23–26
- settler colonialism, 7, 174, 201, 204–5, 208–11, 215, 219n1. See also colonialism
- Shange, Savannah, 9, 212
- Sharpe, Christina, 4–5, 7–8
- Sheller, Mimi, 8–9
- Shneiderman, Sara, 55
- Shoaff, Jennifer, 16
- Shoaib, Muhammad, 124–25
- Shohet, Merav, 101
- Shotwell, Alexis, 169
- Shroff, Sara, 200
- shurli (mushrooms), 49–50
- Simmons, Kristen, 7
- Simpson, Audra, 102, 152, 203–4, 227n6
- Simpson, Edward, 64
- Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 5, 52, 152, 182, 191, 227n6
- Singh, Khushwant, 201
- slavery, 7–9, 135, 203, 236n11
- slow ontology, 185–86
- Smith, Robin James, 90
- Sökefeld, Martin, 15
- sovereignty, 13, 39, 92, 107, 142, 154–55, 203, 217, 223n97; friendship and, 109, 125–28, 172; nonsovereign relationality, 135, 150–52; rethinking of, 17, 36–37, 55–57, 227n6; of the text, 26–27, 214; theorization of, 133–35
- Srinagar, Kashmir, 58
- Stephens, Angharad C., 7
- Stevenson, Lisa, 27
- Stewart, Kathleen, 13
- Stoller, Paul, 5
- Suleman, 38, 227n8
- supranthropology, 182
- survival, 20, 69, 84, 97, 110, 114, 157–59, 161, 163–64, 168, 191; and colonialism, 8–9; and DNA, 72; and flourishing, 11, 173–74; and friendship, 126, 155; and hopefulness, 83
- survivance, 174
- TallBear, Kim, 182
- tawakkul (reliance on Allah), 123–24
- Tedeschini, Marco, 10
- temporality and time, 12–13, 41, 45, 65, 103, 178, 200; academic time, 207–8; chronic violence and, 7–8, 20, 158–59, 168; crip time, 173; disasters as atemporal, 80, 84; gifts and, 183–84; mealtimes, 196–97; memory and, 165–66; in methodology of book, 25–26, 28; mobility limitations and, 67–70, 83–84; queer time, 173. See also chronicity
- Testart, Alain, 183
- theory in the flesh, 10, 222n62
- theory of change, 208–09
- Thomas, Deborah A., 9, 219n4
- Tillmann-Healy, Lisa M., 136
- Todd, Zoe, 29, 182–83, 204
- topographical awareness, 8, 15, 41, 53, 132, 151, 197, 219n2; author difficulty with, 18, 40, 46, 57–59, 91, 193–94, 230n30; gender and, 40, 43–44, 47, 49–50, 103; unofficial pathways, 44–46, 58, 79, 187, 193–94. See also mobility
- Tremblay, Jean-Thomas, 28
- Tronto, Joan, 90
- Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 219n4
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, 83
- Tuck, Eve, 28, 66–67, 205, 208–9, 215
- Turner, Bryan, 11–12
- Walby, Sylvia, 88
- Walia, Harsha, 245n1
- Wilderson, Frank, III, 7
- Wilkinson, Eleanor, 13
- Williams, Raymond, 144, 237n36
- Wilson, Elizabeth, 180
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 111
- Wool, Zoe, 83
- World Food Program, 151, 167
- World Health Organization (WHO), 95
- worlding, 67–69, 83, 124, 202, 207, 230n26
- writing as care, 27
- Wynter, Sylvia, 29, 207