Dr Pascale Schild

Pascale Schild is a social anthropologist. For her PhD (LMU Munich), she carried out ethnographic fieldwork on reconstruction after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. Her research focuses on politics, disaster, the state, conflict, and peace in Kashmir and its transnational connections. Her current research project ‘Peace for Kashmir? Transnational civilian peacebuilding across the Line of Control” is funded by a mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Publication

• Schild, Pascale (forthcoming). Peace for Kashmir? The (non-)politics of “civilian peacebuilding” across the Line of Control. In: Duschinski, Haley, Mona Bhan and Cabeiri Robinson (eds.): Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies. Palgrave.
• Schild, Pascale. 2021. Reciprocal vulnerability in the face of patriarchal violence. Allegra Laboratory, July 7. https://allegralaboratory.net/reciprocal-vulnerability-in-the-face-of-patriarchal-violence/
• Schild, Pascale. 2019. Alltag nach dem Erdbeben. Eine politische Ethnografie des Wiederaufbaus in Azad Kaschmir, Pakistan. Bielefeld: Transcript. (Everyday life after the earthquake. A political ethnography of reconstruction in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan)
• Schild, Pascale (with David Loher, Luisa Piart, and Sabine Strasser). 2016. On the new politics of distribution. An interview with James Ferguson. Tsantsa 21: 166-176.
• Schild, Pascale. 2015. Local politics of reconstruction along and across Azad Kashmir’s border with Pakistan. Contemporary South Asia 23(3): 292-313.
• Schild, Pascale. 2014. Struggling for reconstruction. Houses, homes and “the state” after the earthquake in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir. Scrutiny 5/6 – Journal of International and Pakistan Studies (2011–12): 33-51.
• Schild, Pascale. 2022. From earthquake victims to citizens: dependencies and precarious claims on the state in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Citizenship Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2062703