Pascale Schild is a social anthropologist interested in political anthropology, feminist theory, and critical peace and conflict studies. Her regional focus is on Kashmir and the transnational Kashmiri diaspora.
Pascale Schild has been an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology since August 2025, leading the research project ‘Affective Solidarities: Transnational Struggles and the Making of Sovereign Futures from Occupied Territories’. This project studies the role of affect and emotions in the formation of solidarity practices and relationships. It explores the processes and conditions of affective solidarities and their potential for political transformation. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in South Asia and Europe related to the transnational Kashmiri freedom struggle, the project examines how experiences of occupation and desires for freedom and political self-determination bring people and groups together in solidarity movements, and how these relationships and practices of solidarity (re-)shape notions of personal and political sovereignty.
Pascale Schild holds a PhD from LMU Munich. Before joining the institute in Bern, she was a visiting researcher at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern, the South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London and swisspeace at the University of Basel. She received grants and fellowships from the LMU Graduate Center, the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She held teaching positions at the University of Bern, LMU Munich and the University of Basel.
Her work has appeared in Citizenship Studies, Anthropology and Humanism, and Contemporary South Asia, among other journals and edited volumes. She is co-editor of the special issue ‘In/Civility in Peace and Conflict’ in Peacebuilding.
Since October 2024, Pascale Schild has been co-convenor of the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security (APeCS) Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2385-719X
Research interests
disaster government, politics of reconstruction, the state, citizenship, sovereignty, peacebuilding, political solidarity, affect and emotions, ethnographic vulnerability, Kashmir and the transnational Kashmiri diaspora
