TY - JOUR AU - Das, Saswat Samay AU - Ghosal, Abhisek AU - Roy Pratihar, Ananya PY - 2022/03/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Earth(ing) Kashmir: Geo-Tropicality as a Means of Thinking beyond Stratified Geopolitics JF - eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics JA - eTropic VL - 21 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.25120/etropic.21.1.2022.3844 UR - https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3844 SP - 28-50 AB - <p>This article places the spotlight on remarkably differential nuances of Kashmir’s geo-tropicality only to subject them to a decolonial ethics. It seeks to disengage from colonial representational grammatology that approaches these nuances as alienatingly exotic and spectacular. It furthermore, argues that mutually disjunctive co-becomings of these nuances not only provide Kashmir’s geo-tropicality with a kind of a-humanist orientation, but also makes this tropicality an immanent zone of natural ethical violence. We go on to argue that it is only a kind of ‘smooth politics’ based on decolonial a-humanist ethics of <em>earthing</em> that can end the conflict arising out of governmental attempts at overcoding the chaosophical immanentism of Kashmir’s geo-tropicality.</p> ER -