Reimagining Laal Ded: Mysticism, Peace, and Women’s Agency in Kashmir

Samprikta Chatterjee
Reimagining Laal Ded: Mysticism, Peace, and Women’s Agency in Kashmir Abstract The traditional manner of theorising peace diplomacy has generally been a very androcentric practice. Theoretical paradigms that privilege state sovereignty, strategic rationality and militarised performance, and are products of masculinised processes have always been central to imagining the cartography of peace diplomacy. Feminist epistemological interventions in the spaces of International Relations (IR) and...