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    Wayfinding: A Photoethnography of Indigenous Migration
    Kikon, D ; Karlsson, B ( 2016-11-01)
    This exhibition is concerned with the lives and lifeworlds of indigenous migrants who have travelled from the faraway Northeastern frontier to the expanding cities of South India. This movement does not involve the crossing of any international border, yet both geographically and culturally it is a movement into a very different place.
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    On methodology: research and fieldwork in Northeast India
    Kikon, D (The Kohima Institute, 2019)
    On methodology is about anthropological fieldwork methods in India.
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    Suffering for Territory: Immigrant Claims and Indigenous Rights in the United States and India
    Snipp, CM ; Kloos, K ; Kikon, D ; Roland Hsu & Christoph Reinprecht, (V&R Unipress, 2016-01-18)
    The essays collected in this volume discuss these issues with reference to recent research on migration and mobility in Europe, the US, North and East Africa and South and Southeast Asia.
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    Memories of rape:The Banality of Violence and Impunity in Naga Society
    KIKON, D ; Chakravarti, U (Zubaan Books, 2016)
    This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil rights, particularly in relation to sexual violence, the state of India has played an active and collusive role, creating ...
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    Wayfinding: A Photoethnography 2018
    Kikon, D ; Bengt, K (https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/events, 2018)
    We focus on what labour migration to the south and to the metropolis entails in relation to care for family members and community in the hills. By doing so we aim to assess the cultural fissures at work in people’s attachment to the places of their journeys. The young indigenous migrants seem to be out on a migration route without fixed destinations, struggling to make out what and where home is. We refer to this as wayfinding: a voyage without a map or beaten paths or pathways to follow and with no clear destination or end station. But rather as a form of movement where the traveller constantly is adjusting the direction, seeking out new places and possibilities as he or she is moving on. And as the young are leaving – no longer interested in cultivating the land – we ask what the future holds for the indigenous communities of Northeast India.
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    Gendering Infrastructure in Northeast India
    Kikon, D (Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2019)
    Why do we need a gender perspective on infrastructure in Northeast India? Policy documents, vision statements, and livelihood programmes, including various agencies and key actors underline the significance of building or improving infrastructure in the region to transform lives of people. This is a genuine case for thousands of inhabitants across villages and towns who are unable to access basic health, education and economic needs. In this context, the basic concept of understanding infrastructure is often centred on connectivity or networks and matters that create the conditions for the movement of people and goods. In this essay, I offer how ongoing developments and aspirations on the ground transform gender relations. Across Northeast India, when people demand for “infrastructure” they generally refer to roads, bridges, schools and clinics. There are aspirations for houses and materials such as water supply and electricity as well. Such processes allow us to move from conceptualising infrastructure from abstract ideas to into providing tangible and concrete evidences on the ground. These materials, as anthropologists have shown, are powerful tools of thinking about the transformation in our lives. As people begin to attach their aspirations, dreams, and failures to roads, bridges, power supplies, machines, planes and buses, we also witness how they deeply share the social, economic and political lives of people. These connections and relations that are formed as a consequence of these connections and networks are often fragile and constantly evolving (Appel, Anand, Gupta 2015)...
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    Dreams and Desserts: Indigenous Migration, Service, and Mobility in India
    Kikon, D (University of Southern California, 2018-09-27)
    This article focuses on the pathways of indigenous migrants from Northeast India and examines their lives as workers in the hospitality industry. Experiences of indigenous migrants allows us to study emerging trends of indigenous mobility and consumption in India. Indigenous migration from Northeast India is distinct because it is a movement away from a slash-and-burn subsistence agriculture and a sense of belonging determined by ethnic politics focused on autonomous homelands. In addition, experiences of indigenous migrants from the highlands of Northeast India with their un-Indian looks and their English-language skills present them as desirable workers in the hospitality industry.
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    Celebrating Asian Studies in Australia
    Kikon, D ; Jurriens, Edwin, ; Dragojlovic, Ana, (International Institute for Asian Studies., 2017)
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    From the Heart to the Plate: Dog Meat Debate in Dimapur
    Kikon, D ; McDuie-Ra, Duncan, (International Institute for Asian Studies., 2017)