书名：Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir / 欢乐园：克什米尔的停电与危机逻辑
定价：128.0
ISBN：9781915743237
作者：Skye Arundhati Thomas
版次：1
出版时间：2023-05

内容提要：

题 目：Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir / 欢乐园：克什米尔的停电与危机逻辑

作 者：Skye Arundhati Thomas

出 版：Mack ，2024

装 帧：平装，96页

尺 寸：12.5*19.5 cm

 

 

“我们确定了一项任务：尝试填补空白，即信息的缺失。并尽量以最简单、最准确的方式做到这一点。”

 

《欢乐园》是一个紧迫的两部分项目，旨在调查克什米尔地区的军事占领、土地征用和通信中断情况。克什米尔的边境地区军事化严重，经常成为印度和巴基斯坦之间的冲突爆发地。该项目以2019年持续213天的通信中断为起点，旨在详细阐述实施这些封锁背后的原因，并寻求一种新的文字和图像记录方式，以揭示占领的状况和通信中断所带来的长期暴力。

 

在书的第一部分中，斯科特和托马斯汇集了数百个信息来源，填补了从斯利那加到印度和巴基斯坦实际控制线沿线偏远的喜马拉雅山谷之间的信息空白，创建了一份独特的、为期十五天的围城日志。在这期间，克什米尔人的宪法权利被剥夺，该邦被分割，并失去了其特殊地位。在第二部分中，作者们审视了克什米尔的被占领土，以及印度如何复杂地借鉴以色列对巴勒斯坦的占领方式，来建立其监控和占领的基础设施。

 

该书还包括由乌法克·法蒂玛、纳瓦尔·阿里和扎伊纳布撰写的摄影随笔，这一杰出的出版物对通信中断、其后果以及它们所依赖的扭曲危机逻辑进行了至关重要的探讨。

 

‘We identified a task: to try and fill the void, the gaps in information. To try and do this as simply and as precisely as possible.’

 

Pleasure Gardens is an urgent two-part project that investigates the military occupation, land appropriation, and communication blackouts in Kashmir, a region whose heavily militarized borders have frequently been a site of conflict between India and Pakistan. Taking a 213-day blackout in 2019 as its starting point, the project aims to detail the reasoning behind these blockades, seeking a new register of writing and image that makes visible the conditions of occupation and the protracted violence of the blackout.

 

In the book’s first part, Scott and Thomas bring together hundreds of sources, filling in the gaps from Srinagar to the remote Himalayan valleys along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, to create a unique log of fifteen days under siege, during which Kashmiri constitutional rights were revoked, the state partitioned, and stripped of its special statehood. In the second part, the authors examine Kashmir’s occupied territories and the complex ways in which India’s infrastructure of surveillance and occupation is borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

 

Including photo essays by Ufaq Fatima, Nawal Ali, and Zainab, this remarkable publication offers a crucial exploration of blackouts, their aftermath, and the twisted logic of crisis on which they rely.