Dolly Kikon

Title

Dolly Kikon

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Javid Jalvandi.

Birthplace

Nagaland, India

Primary Sources

Kikon, D., and Tamma. K. (2024). Laughter and Fieldwork in Nagaland: A DialogueACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 23(3), 247-259.

Kikon, D. (2023).  Present Day Naga Society: A Story about Culture,  in Stiftung Humboldt Forum (Ed.) Naga Land: Voices from North-east India.pp. 53-60, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag.

Kikon, D and McDuie-Ra, D (2022) Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ ceasefire-city-9780190129736?cc=au&lang=en&

Kikon, D. (2022). Dirty food: racism and casteism in India. Ethnic and Racial Studies45(2), 278-297. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1964558

Kikon, D. (2021). Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood: Fermenting Flavors and Identities in Northeast IndiaCurrent Anthropology, 62(S24), pp. 376-387.

Kikon, D. and Barbora, S. (2021). The Rehabilitation Zone: Living with Lemons and Elephants in AssamEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(3), pp. 1121-1138.

Kikon, D. (2019) Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics & Militarization in Northeast India, The University of Washington, https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295743950/living-with-oil-and-coal/

Kikon, D (2016) Life and Dignity; Women’s testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur (Nagaland).

Kikon, D. (2015) Fermenting Modernity: Putting Akhuni on the Nation’s Table in IndiaSouth Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 38(2), pp. 320–335. doi: 10.1080/00856401.2015.1031936.

Kikon, D. (2015). What is Unique about Naga History? Economic and Political Weekly, 50(35), 10-13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482305

Kikon, D. (2009). The predicament of justice: fifty years of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in India. Contemporary South Asia, 17(3), 271-282.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09584930903108937

Kikon D., Karlsson B. (2009). Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India. Cambridge University Press. 

Kikon, D. (2005). Naga Nationalism: Can Democracy Function in Militarised Societies? Economic and Political Weekly, 40(26), 2833-2837.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4416822

Secondary Sources

Iralu, E. and Kikon, D. (2022). ‘Colonization Called my Home a Disturbed Area: A conversation’ in Golstein, A. and Trujillo, S. V. (Eds.) Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis. New York: Common Notions, pp. 213-228. https://pmpress.org/ index.php?l=product_detail&p=1613

Karlsson B. G and Kikon, D (2019) Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour, Cambridge University Press,  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108637817

McDuie-Ra, D., & Kikon, D. (2016). Tribal communities and coal in Northeast India: The politics of imposing and resisting mining bans. Energy Policy, 99, 261-269.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.05.021.

Extra Resources

Dolly Kikon, homepage, Accessed 21 Jan, 2024 https://dollykikon.com/

Dr. Dolly Kikon lectures on ‘Naga Ancestral Remains, Repatriation and Healing of the Land’, Jul 27, 2022, Eastern Mirror, Accessed 22 March, 2023.
https://youtu.be/nPDlU_TGkKc

Naga Land: Voices from North East India: Exhibition, 2024-2024 https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/dauerangebot/exhibition/naga-land-46452/

Land, Resources and Nature in North-East India: Ethnographic Explorations with Dolly Kikon (2023) Doing Sociology, 15th March at 5 pm, You Tube. Accessed 15 Jan, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga9KWG373-E

Seasons of Life, Film, Directed by Dolly Kikon | Lotha Naga with English subtitles, Accessed 15 Jan, 2025. https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/phytopia/programmes/films/seasons-of-life

Kikon, D. (2020) ‘Toxic Ecologies: Assam, Oil, and a Crude Future‘, The India Forum, 7 August. Accessed 15 Jan, 2025.

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Citation

“Dolly Kikon,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 11, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/439.

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