Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations
Inshah Malik is a political theorist and a Gender studies scholar specializing in issues of sovereignty, war, violence, political cultures, grief, and mourning in Feminist movements.
She received a doctoral degree from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is a former Fox Fellow at Yale University, USA, and there also served as an invited visiting professor at many other US universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Washington.
Very recently she worked as an assistant professor of International Relations and Political Theory in Afghanistan. In 2022, she was a visiting scholar at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Publications
● Muslim Women, Agency, and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir, Palgrave Macmillan, USA, 2019
● Edited Volume on Body, Politics, and Nation: Intersections of Politics in Late Modernity, Vernon Press, USA, due 2024 (under contract)
● A Book titled, Home: A lived history of Kashmir, for Penguin India (under contract)
● Political-Social Movements: Islamist Movements and Discourses: Kashmir: Early 20th century: Encyclopedia for Women in Islamic Cultures on Kashmir & Islam
● “Gendered Politics of Funerary Processions Kashmir; Contesting Indian Sovereignty in Kashmir” in Economic Political Weekly: Vol 53, Issue 47, 2018
● Protest, death, and public funerals: the affective site of feminist politics in Kashmir in International Feminist Journal of Politics Vol 20, Pp 660-662, USA, 2018.
● Imaginations of Self and Struggle; Women in the Kashmiri Armed Struggle, Economic & Political Weekly: Vol 50, pp. 60-66, India, 2015.
● Sexuate Agency and Autonomy in Witnessing Kashmir Violence, co-authored with Manola. K. Gayatri, in Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan, USA, 2017.
● Kashmiri Desire and Digital Space: Queering National Identity and the Indian Citizen published in Queering Digital Activisms,
● Intimacies and Subjectivities in India, EUP Publications, Scotland, 2018.
● Protest, Violence, and Public Funeral: Women in Resistance Mourning in Kashmir in Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, Women Unlimited India, 2020.
● Gendered Politics of Funerary Processions Kashmir; Contesting Indian Sovereignty in Kashmir” in Economic Political Weekly: Vol 53, Issue 47, 2018