<b><i>A Systematic Literature Review: Invisible Jammu: Erasure, Extraction and Climate Justice in a Forgotten Territory</i></b>

<p dir="ltr">This article presents a PRISMA-guided systematic literature review of Jammu (Occupied by Pakistan), focusing on the districts of Mirpur, Kotli and Bhimber. Despite the region's centrality to hydropower projects, forced displacement, and geopolitical trade corridors such as CPEC, it is strikingly absent in global academic and policy literature. Using a novel approach that treats bibliographic silence as data, the review identifies the structural mechanisms that render this region invisible—legally, fiscally, and discursively. The analysis frames Pakistan’s governance of the territory as a "company-state" model: a subsidiary zone where land is reclassified as state property (sirkārī zamīn), military-presence debt structures the budget, and infrastructure is recorded only through technical outputs. Mental health studies, while rare, further reveal psychosocial distress, displacement trauma, and stigma in local communities. The article argues that erasure itself functions as a form of structural violence, masking the lived realities of communities most affected by extractive development. By centring absence, the study expands the boundaries of climate justice and offers a methodological intervention in how marginalised territories are read within political geography.</p>