Dr. Nosheen Ali, Visiting Associate Professor at the NYU Gallatin School for Individualized Study will discuss “Delusional States: Poetic Subjectivity, Production of Space and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan.”

Dr. Ali will look at how the region of Gilgit-Baltistan—which internationally forms part of the heavily militarized, disputed border zone of Kashmir—is produced as an “unimagined community” within Pakistani national discourse. How are regions produced as a feeling, space, and property? How is ecology and militarism central to these productions? And how do poetic subjectivities offer a lens on understanding citizenship under such conditions of rule? She will further highlight how tourism, national parks, and extractive industries are reshaping life and resistance in high mountain ecological frontiers like Gilgit-Baltistan, which are being acutely impacted by climate change.