Pascale Schild

Pascale Schild is a political anthropologist. Her research focuses on disaster government, politics of reconstruction, the state/citizenship, civil society peacebuilding, and political solidarity. She explores these themes from the perspective of Kashmir’s disputed territories and the local and transnational struggles of Kashmiris for freedom and the right to political self-determination.

Bridging three distinct fields of research in social anthropology – sovereignty, solidarity, and political affect – her habilitation project, entitled “Affective Solidarities”, explores the formation of transnational solidarities and their potential contribution to conflict resolution and political transformation in Kashmir and beyond. The project seeks to understand and explain how affective practices, intimate relationships, and feelings of solidarity, while driven by mutually exclusive desires for national sovereignty, enable solidarity groups to bridge differences and imagine sovereign futures beyond the nation-state form.

Pascale holds a PhD from the LMU Munich. For her postdoctoral research on transnational peacebuilding for Kashmir and political solidarity with the Kashmiri freedom movement in parliamentary politics in the UK, she was awarded fellowships and grants from the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Her work has appeared in Citizenship Studies, Peacebuilding, and Contemporary South Asia, among other journals and edited volumes. Based on her PhD, she is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Shadows of Government: Disaster vulnerability and intimate resistance in post-earthquake Kashmir”.

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