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    On Documenting Indigenous Food Cultures
    Kikon, D ( 2020-08-23)
    What do we think of when we refer to ‘Indian Food?’ This discussion will explore food cultures in parts of India where spiced curries are not as common as one might believe. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon will be in conversation with filmmaker Nilanjan Bhattacharya about their documentary films Seasons of Life: Foraging and Fermenting Bamboo During Ceasefire and Johar: Welcome to Our World. Both these documentaries illustrate indigenous food cultures and practices, which are often overlooked in the mainstream discourse about Indian cuisine and food habits. In collaboration with Science Gallery Bengaluru
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    In their Voices: Migrant Narratives and Voices
    Kikon, D (Global Migrants Festival, 2020-11-26)
    How do we ensure that migrants’ perspectives, concerns, and histories have their rightful place in our collective understanding – and how do we remake our maps and archives to represent their knowledge?
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    During the Pandemic
    Kikon, D (http://www.dollykikon.com/projects/during-the-pandemic, 2020-11-25)
    During the Pandemic presents art works of children from violent homes in Nagaland (India). As a collaborative exhibition with children, guardians, social workers, researchers, and grassroots organisations, this project presents art made by vulnerable children to share their experiences of the pandemic. Curated by anthropologist Dolly Kikon, in partnership with Sisterhood Network and Prodigal’s Home, the project is part of an ongoing campaign to address gender violence in Nagaland.
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    Dolly Kikon on the Baghjan Oil Crisis and the Politics of Resource Extraction
    Kikon, D (Swaddle, 2020-09-04)
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    SEASONS OF LIFE AND SEASONS OF LAW: LAW, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND EATING BAMBOOSHOOT AND DOGMEAT
    Kikon, D (Jindal Global University, 2020)
    Dolly Kikon in conversation with the Jindal Law and Humanities Review Editorial Team on her recent documentary Seasons of Life.
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    Taste so Good! Celebrating Bambooshoot
    Kikon, D (RAIOT, 2020-09-18)
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    Seasons of Life: Foraging and Fermenting Bambooshoot during Ceasefire
    Kikon, D (A documentary, 2020)
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    Toxic Ecologies: Assam, oil, and a crude future
    Kikon, D (The India Forum, 2020)
    The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities.
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    The rehabilitation zone: Living with lemons and elephants in Assam
    Kikon, D ; Barbora, S (SAGE Publications, 2020)
    Lemon farming promoted as rehabilitation programs in western Assam has generated income for villages that were deeply affected by ethnic conflict in the 1990s. Rehabilitation is tied to an economic logic linked with the market and a profit-driven measure of development. In the absence of an official reconciliation process on the ground, these economic initiatives have become an ambitious and attractive model for the Indian state to rebuild societies that have witnessed violent ethnic conflicts in Northeast India. Drawing from fieldwork carried out between 2016 and 2019 around Manas National Park, an area within the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts in western Assam, this article examines the experiences and impacts of lemon farming and focuses on practices of rehabilitation on the ground. The process of restoration includes communities living in the villages and the animals inside the park simultaneously. We show how communities are seeking to create connections with the land and their surroundings to overcome trauma and rebuild their lives. Specifically, we focus on lemon farming and the experiences of human–elephants relationships in Manas to highlight how these accounts produce an integrative account of rehabilitation in post-conflict societies. In the backdrop of militarization and structural violence, rehabilitating communities and animals is not a straightforward story. It entails proposing new theoretical frameworks to understand how reconstructing lives and the land is also about transforming relationships between humans and animals under circumstances that are often challenging. Ongoing lemon farming practices and living with elephants in Assam requires envisioning ways of belonging and living on the land and at the same time recognizing the boundaries.