The Kashmir space: Bordering and belonging across the line of control

Abstract

This article examines the Kashmir dispute by using the border – the ambivalent spatiality created by the Line of Control (LoC) – as a method to analyse the borderland. Through the adoption of a borderland perspective, it explores the way in which various sites in the divided territories are affected by territorialization processes related to transformations of the state space. By looking at how people there refer to the disputed context of Kashmir, the article highlights forms in which people are being bordered and the conditions of political life in these territories.