Pascale Schild is an associated researcher and guest lecturer at the Institute. She holds a PhD from the LMU Munich. Her research broadly focuses on disaster reconstruction, the state, politics of distribution, resistance ‘from below’, political solidarity and peace and conflict. She explores these themes from the perspective of Kashmir’s borderlands and struggles for freedom and social justice under the conditions of coloniality that shape politics and power relations across the region and its diaspora. Her work has appeared in Citizenship Studies, Peacebuilding and Contemporary South Asia, among other journals and edited volumes. Pascale is currently a visiting scholar at the SOAS South Asia Institute (until 2024). She was awarded postdoc fellowships/grants from the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation for her research on transnational peace activism and practices of solidarity with the Kashmiri freedom movement.
Research Interests
Politics, anthropology of the state, bureaucracies, ‘natural’ disasters, transnationalism, peace, democracy, governmentality, South Asia (Pakistan and Kashmir)
