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    Our (De) Colonial Stories: Letters Between a Lepcha Geographer and a Naga Anthropologist
    Kikon, D ; Gergan, MD (RAIOT: Challenging the Consensus, 2021-06-02)
    Letter between a Lepcha Geographer and a Naga Anthropologist An essay about decolonization and indigenous pedagogy.
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    The Logistics of Advocacy
    Kikon, D (https://www.fieldguidetologistics.com/post/logistics-of-advocacy, 2021-04-22)
    The 2020 drastic lockdowns in India resulted in the closure of schools. In Nagaland, the logistics of mobilizing care and protection for vulnerable children from violent homes became a rallying point for frontline community workers and grassroots advocacy groups. The image represents how existing inequalities and gender violence exacerbated globally. The sharp increase in gender-based violence witnessed a flow of battered partners and children in rehabilitation homes. New networks of community workers and legal teams emerged to provide support structures. Shifting between the police station, legal office, and the rehabilitation homes, children from violent homes were unable to attend online classes due to the prevailing situation, and also for the lack of logistical support like mobile phones, data services and computers. Consequently, rates of dropout increased during the pandemic. Completed in October 2020, the artwork titled “Police man came dad in jail”, is sketched by a 7 year old child living in a rehabilitation home in Dimapur (Nagaland). The image is a manifestation of the personal nightmares of a small child. Yet, it was also emblematic of the larger tragedies experienced by millions of vulnerable and precarious migrants forced to undertake a long march back home from jobs, workplaces that disappeared overnight in India. The above image is part of a photo/video exhibition titled, “During the Pandemic” that showcases the logistics of advocacy to gender violence during the pandemic. (http://www.dollykikon.com/engagements/during-the-pandemic)
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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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    Episode 5: Dr Dolly Kikon in conversation with Dilpreet Kaur Taggar
    Kikon, D (The University of Melbourne, 2021-07-26)
    Senior lecturer in our Anthropology and Development Studies program Dr Dolly Kikon joins Master of Journalism graduate Dilpreet Kaur Taggar to discuss the cultures of South Asia, the impact of digital media and Dilpreet's newly-launched online publication South Asian Today. South Asian Today is an autonomous, multimedia, online magazine for and by South Asian womxn and non-binary people. It aims to platform, empower and strengthen South Asian community through mixed media ways of storytelling.
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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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    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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    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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