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Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood Fermenting Flavors and Identities in Northeast India

Kikon, D (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2021-10)

This essay draws from my ethnographic fieldwork in Northeast India and examines how identities are mediated through fermented food like bamboo shoot. These shoots come in different textures and forms: wet chunky pieces, sun-dried and stringy threads, smoked and curly strands. Our relationship with fermented food, as this essay highlights, determine how we organize, move, and order our lives, contributing to the creation of differences and alliances. At a time when we witness a global movement on fermenting cultures and the microbial world, this essay locates small-scale nonindustrial fermentation practices among communities across Northeast India. Exploring the significant role of food in shaping taste, practices, and politics on the ground, I show how fermenting cultures shape citizenship practices and identities. By highlighting narratives and representations of fermented food, this essay brings the extraordinarily varied and dense worlds of fermenting cultures and highlights the associative relationship between fermented food and communities.
Caste and the Corporation, in India and Abroad

Kikon, D (The University of Melbourne, 2021-07-15)

India’s caste system remains alive and thriving, both in India and in its global diaspora. Seven decades after the passing of laws to fight discrimination, caste continues to dictate who Indians can marry, their prospects for education and jobs, and even where they may live. Caste’s pernicious effects also extend to businesses, from Mumbai to Silicon Valley, holding sway over both individual careers and corporate performance. Prof Hari Bapuji and Dr Dolly Kikon join presenter Ali Moore to discuss the growing reach of caste in a globalised world.
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.
Seed stories in Nagaland: The entanglement of farmers, states agents, and agricultural students

Kikon, D ; Karlsson, BG ; Rabo, A (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2021-04-23)
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)
Hello Chinky

Kikon, D (Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2021-03-16)
Challenging Gendered Power Structures in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Business

Kikon, D ( 2021-02-13)

One of the biggest shifts in existing power hierarchies can be brought about by bringing more women to the fore. There is a need to address the under representation of women in the higher echelons of power so as to make them the key decision makers, subsequently creating more women role models. Masculine style of decision making that focuses on competitiveness, assertion and authority is considered the single ideal. This panel will discuss the need for creating women leaders and involving their expertise and leadership qualities to bring about sustainable and socially favourable outcomes. Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses by definition are striving for the greater good, which means it must be particularly cognizant of not reinventing existing power structures and the panel will discuss how Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses should not exclude marginalized identities. In general, women entrepreneurs face challenges as business owners to survive in fiercely competitive domestic and global markets and as women to strike a balance between work and life. Since entrepreneurship is a gendered phenomenon and entrepreneurial activities that occur within systems of socially constructed and shared values, norms, practices, belief systems on gender, these affect women entrepreneurs’ motivations, types of challenges that they face and the opportunities that exist in business, start-ups and development. Despite challenges and difficulties that women entrepreneurs face, the opportunities that they create in business development can serve as a model for aspiring women entrepreneurs in Asia and other countries. Leading questions addressed are: What motivated women entrepreneurs to start/own/manage a business? What challenges did they face in business development? What are the struggles and barriers faced? What opportunities contributed to their business success? This panel will also discuss the need for creating women leaders and involving their expertise and leadership qualities to bring about sustainable and socially favourable outcomes, leadership that must be particularly cognizant of not reinventing or reinforcing existing power structures nor exclude marginalized identities. The panel will also address the need for more women to take part in policy dialogues on entrepreneurship and building lobby groups at varied levels. Objective Establish the need for supporting women in SESB and explore practices that help women flourish in leadership roles. Suggested Questions • What are the struggles and barriers that women in SESB face? (Someone from the SESB domain must speak about personal experiences here). • Can encouraging more women-led Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses lead to more women in discourses on policy, planning and creating a much-needed women centric lobby group? • How more women leaders in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses can help diversify the style of leadership shifting the focus from masculine style of leadership? • What are some substantive steps that Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Businesses can take to change the existing power structures?
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
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.
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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