HCRI Anthropologist Recognised with Top Feminist Scholarship Award for Groundbreaking Work on Kashmir
, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the , has won the Gloria Anzald煤a Book Prize for his monograph,
Widely regarded as one of the highest honours in the field of feminist studies, the prize is named in tribute to renowned Chicana poet, feminist theorist, and writer Gloria Anzald煤a. It is awarded annually to groundbreaking monographs that significantly advance multicultural feminist research, particularly within Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
The National Women鈥檚 Studies Association announced the award at its annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in November.
The jury described the book鈥檚 contributions as follows:
鈥�Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir offers incredible insights and invitations as we take up [the author鈥檚] question: 鈥榟ow we can operate in ways that warp the distance between the academy and community, expert and subject, story and theory, life and poetry鈥�? [The] generous, incisive, beautifully written and visual work informs a lyrical and generative text that is disobedient to the colonial disciplines of extraction normalized in the infrastructure of knowledge production. Atmospheric Violence enriches the depth of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality studies in [its] offering of rich and complex ethnographic scholarship that continually asks readers pause and reframe the role of the researchers, modalities of living and erasure, and the ever-present question of the politics of our location before we can even fathom a response to 鈥榃ho Can Stand with Kashmir?鈥� [We] thank [the author] for inviting us to pause and delve into these rich scenes of an otherwise.鈥�
This is the fifth international award the monograph has won since its release last year.