Issues Archives - Zanaan Wanaan

Conflict, Space, and Public Architecture: Tracing Transformations of Loss through Bridges in Kashmir

Bridges are repositories of embodied trauma and loss in Kashmir. This article assesses the strange phenomenon of bridge-burning during the... Read More

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Politics of Humor: Women in Political Cartoons of Kashmir

Humor is one of the most potent means of shaping the collective memory for any society. The simple act of... Read More

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Pursuing the Right to Truth: Women’s Resistance and the Fight against Impunity

This essay provides a comparative analysis of human rights violations in The Gambia and Kashmir with a focus on enforced... Read More

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Mediating Experiences of Kashmir: Thinking through the Abrogation

“I watch the news and my mouth becomes a sink full of blood.” —Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to... Read More

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The Many Projections of a Normal Life: Everyday Photography and Visual Production in Kashmir

With the advancement in affordable technology over the past couple of decades, photography is more accessible now than it has... Read More

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ZW Issue II Cover Art Explainer

The Cover Art for ZW’s second issue is an attempt to engage with the theme, Militarized Media: Power, Propaganda and... Read More

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I Am Not One story: The Metaverse in Kashmir

Can a story be simply told? Especially when it concerns two unequal sides: the powerful and the overpowered? Will the powerful... Read More

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Between Redressal and Survival: Domestic Violence in Kashmir

My house was burnt in a ‘counter-insurgency operation’ …that felt like a crack in my backbone. We [now] live in... Read More

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Aasia Jeelani- A Kashmiri Feminist Trailblazer

Aasia Jeelani (1977-2005) was a force to be reckoned with; her involvement in the women’s movement in Kashmir cannot be... Read More

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For Parveena Ahanger, in Solidarity

Thinking of women’s activism in Kashmir is perhaps unimaginable without Parveena Ahanger, the co-founder of the Association of Parents of... Read More