From: "dorte borchers" <dorteborchers-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: RE: War in Kashmir
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:30:22 +0200


> > Why should any human being fight for a land?
> > A human being has feet, not roots. Feet are for walking, from one place 
>to
> >an other. Roots are for staying in one single location. 
>Deterritorialisation
> >means " to fly away from "territoire"".
>
>Yes.
>
>However, most food that is eaten does have roots, or is dependent on land 
>in another way.
>
>Only the elite who has succeeded to ignore the source of their daily food 
>supply can afford to strive towards absolute deterritorialisation. In the 
>same manner this elite succeeds in ignoring other economic ground patterns 
>by culturalising and semiotising discourse. Yes, they can fly away from 
>territoire: on the back of the working and peasant classes their feet 
>hardly touch ground.
>
>Just a thought, of course nothing to do with Kashmir....
>
>Wouter Kusters
>
> >I do not know Pakistan, I do not know India and I do not know the "in
> >between" (kashmir?). I whish there are no" in betweens".
> >I whish you do not need to back a power (like India or Pakistan)   in 
>order
> >to exist as a local power. Why do you want a local existence?
> >Why should anyone still play the ugly game of striated space?
> >Amicalement
> >Herve

Hi
I am new in the discussion, the only piece of it I got is the part above. 
Anyway I am not only trying to figure out D&G but am also busy with and 
interested in South Asian matters.
My personal opinion is that the power play between India and Pakistan 
happens, like similar conflicts elsewhere, because there are people who 
profit from them and do not much care about anything but that profit, may it 
be money, fame, or a increased conviction of their own importance. I often 
wonder about the role of those involved 'behind the screens'. Not only 
weapon dealers and politicians gain from conflicts but also the politician's 
advisors, for example, and so called 'regional experts' who get to be on TV 
in times of conflicts and can expect the sales rates of their publications 
to go up.
Well, I am looking forward to read more by others.

Dörte Borchers



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