Speakers:

Mohamed Junaid, Kashmiri writer and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA

Suchitra Vijayan, The Polis Project

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After looking at India’s neoliberal shift in national economic and development policies since the 1990s and the associated lawfare through weaponisation of land and forest legal regimes that has heightened the exploitation and oppression of not just Adivasis but also peasants, farmers and labourers, we return to state militarisation, violence and criminalisation of resistance.

The sixth session will discuss the continuities in patterns of violence and repression scripted by the Indian state against all forms of people’s resistance in India and Indian Occupied Kashmir: anti-displacements movements resisting the extractive state-corporate nexus; movements resisting the increasing institutionalization of authoritarianism in India and persecution of India’s marginalized communities; and the struggles for self-determination of Kashmiri people in Indian Occupied Kashmir.