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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute and the South Asia Center welcome&nbsp\;
 Omer Aijazi from the University of Manchester\, U.K.&nbsp\;Atmospheric Vio
 lence explores how people in the militarized\, ecologically fragile border
 lands of Kashmir attempt to flourish in an environment where violence is e
 verywhere\, or atmospheric. Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous val
 leys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control\, where life has b
 een shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the
  contested India/Pakistan border.&nbsp\;Through a series of interconnected
  scenes\, Aijazi explores what it means to theorize from the standpoint of
  those who do not subscribe to the rules by which most others have come to
  know the world. 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 a
 nd rupture but rather on repair—the social labor of creating and maintaini
 ng viable life\, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation.
 This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and t
 he EnvironmentOmer Aijazi&nbsp\;is a critical disaster studies scholar and
  decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Human
 itarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester.
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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute and the South Asia C
 enter welcome&nbsp\;Omer Aijaz<strong>i</strong> from the University of Ma
 nchester\, U.K.&nbsp\;</p><p><em>Atmospheric Violence</em> explores how pe
 ople in the militarized\, ecologically fragile borderlands of Kashmir atte
 mpt to flourish in an environment where violence is everywhere\, or atmosp
 heric. Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion o
 f Kashmir under Pakistan’s control\, where life has been shaped by recurri
 ng environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Paki
 stan border.&nbsp\;</p><p>Through a series of interconnected scenes\, Aija
 zi explores what it means to theorize from the standpoint of those who do 
 not subscribe to the rules by which most others have come to know the worl
 d. In conversation with a radical humanist anthropology and affect theory\
 , held accountable to Black and Indigenous studies\, Aijazi offers a decol
 onial 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.</p><p><em>Thi
 s event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and the 
 Environment</em></p><p><strong>Omer Aijazi</strong>&nbsp\;is a critical di
 saster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asi
 a. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the U
 niversity of Manchester.</p>
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