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In de facto borderlands, the different meanings that co-located religious groups assign to remembered historical conflicts create an uneven ontological insecurity that shapes their shared lived social form. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how memory-mediated processes regarding Partition, militancy, and displacement generate uneven ontological insecurity among co-located religious groups along a de facto border.

August 22, 2026Asian Ethnicity

The de facto borderland as a space of uneven ontological insecurity: insights from a village in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir

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Qualitative study uncovers uneven ontological insecurity in a multi-religious border village, highlighting how divergent memories of conflict shape the lived social form of contested borderlands.

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To examine how memory-mediated processes regarding Partition, militancy, and displacement generate uneven ontological insecurity among co-located religious groups along a de facto border.
Interpretivist qualitative study design combining semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation.
Sample included 40 semi-structured interviews conducted in Sangli Dara, a village situated along the Line of Control in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir.
Divergent collective memories of historical conflict across Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh residents produce internally uneven conditions of ontological insecurity within the same shared village setting.
Fear, anticipation, and estrangement serve as mnemonic modalities that actively sustain, strain, or destabilize narrative continuity, routine familiarity, and symbolic coherence.

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Nitin Rawat (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895facca7ade938187e6e6 https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2026.2721667

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August 22, 2026Asian Ethnicity

The de facto borderland as a space of uneven ontological insecurity: insights from a village in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir

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Qualitative study uncovers uneven ontological insecurity in a multi-religious border village, highlighting how divergent memories of conflict shape the lived social form of contested borderlands.

Key Points

To examine how memory-mediated processes regarding Partition, militancy, and displacement generate uneven ontological insecurity among co-located religious groups along a de facto border.
Interpretivist qualitative study design combining semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation.
Sample included 40 semi-structured interviews conducted in Sangli Dara, a village situated along the Line of Control in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir.
Divergent collective memories of historical conflict across Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh residents produce internally uneven conditions of ontological insecurity within the same shared village setting.
Fear, anticipation, and estrangement serve as mnemonic modalities that actively sustain, strain, or destabilize narrative continuity, routine familiarity, and symbolic coherence.

Cite This Study

Nitin Rawat (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895facca7ade938187e6e6 https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2026.2721667

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