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The language of contention: the case of the post-2008 Kashmiri youth narratives

Ganie, Mohd Tahir (2019) The language of contention: the case of the post-2008 Kashmiri youth narratives. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Abstract
This thesis investigates the political narratives of Kashmiri youth, offering a sustained exploration of the discursive strategies through which the youth narrators concretise and exemplify the collective action frames of the Kashmiri self-determination movement or Tehreek. Particularly focusing on the samples from 2010 and 2016, this thesis argues that the dominant frames in the Kashmiri youth narratives point to a discursive pattern, which reflects the political culture of contemporary Kashmir, where youth are at the forefront of the resistance movement, and this political culture determines which frames will resonate and be considered legitimate. Thus, analysis of the political discourses of Kashmiri youth can shed light on the political and ideological thought-currents underpinning the recent political mobilisations in Kashmir. The thesis illustrates the varied ways by which the Kashmiri youth narrators communicate their collective political grievances, counter statist narratives, and affirm a sense of separate political community. So, in their particularised framings of significant political events, they express their political subjectivity. As concrete, albeit an unorganised, group of intellectual functionaries within a generation, they reconstruct the language of contention and reproduce the political culture of Tehreek as well as generate new modes of thinking about Kashmiri resistance movement. By inscribing upon the political narratives their unique experiences and memories of the conflict, a generational consciousness informs their writings on Kashmir, endowing their language of contention with a distinct generational and moral force. Their narratives play a vital role in not only foregrounding the indigenous experiences of the conflict but by subverting the assimilationist project of the state they also nurture a culture of resistance and political dissent. In the post-2008 Kashmir, their intervention at the discursive level interacts with the street protests of other youths, and combinedly these two realms of political activism make the youth generation an independent and decisive political force in the Kashmir conflict. Ultimately, a political project reproduces itself when a critical mass of new generation embodies it because it is not only an abstract principle or worldview but also a consistent and relatively coherent social practice which gives political ideas their objective existence. In Kashmiri youth narratives, we can see a unity of purpose and discern their relative cohesiveness, and manifestation of shared political subjectivity in how they reconstruct and reiterate the political ideas of Tehreek.
Metadata
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Date of Award:17 April 2019
Refereed:No
Supervisor(s):Doyle, John
Uncontrolled Keywords:Kashmir Youth Resistance
Subjects:Social Sciences > International relations
Social Sciences > Political science
Social Sciences > Sociology
Social Sciences > Identity
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Research Institutes and Centres > DCU Conflict Institute
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Dublin City University
ID Code:23198
Deposited On:22 Nov 2019 12:19 by John Doyle . Last Modified 08 Apr 2021 03:30
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