[Marxism] 3/31: Film Screening and Discussion-The Other Silk Road

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Monday, March 31
7:30 pm

FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION

The Other Silk Road <http://www.brechtforum.org/node/1561?bc=>
Sanjay Barbora & Dolly Kikon

There are some places in the world that are incredibly remote. These places
become colored corners that are easy to ignore once their borders within a
territorial map have been secured. They are seen as places whose remoteness
demands that people move away from there. But this is far from the truth.
Central Asia and Northeast India are both regions that have been important
in the fertilization of civilization, culture and technology. And yet, it is
their remoteness that has defined the manner in which people living in these
regions negotiate power.

Join us for a two-part event: the screening of *The Other Silk Road,* a film
produced by PANOS South Asia on migration and the flow of markets and people
in Central Asia post the break-up of the Soviet Union, and a discussion with
Sanjay Barbora and Dolly Kikon revealing the dangerous silence on what
transpires in Northeast India today.

With the break-up of the Soviet Union, the peoples of Central Asia, once
part of farming collectives and state employees, negotiate their lives as
they negotiate markets in a new world order.

The region referred to as Northeast India, lying as it does along the border
with China, has been one of the most militarized corners of the world. Since
World War II, the presence of troops forever defending territory, retreating
tactically and leaving burning villages in their wake, grouping villages,
and -- generally doing what all occupiers do best -- plundering, has been a
constant feature for the peoples of the region.
 Sanjay Barbora is an anthropologist, activist, and currently the regional
head of the PANOS South Asia Conflict and Media Programme. Dolly Kikon is an
activist, lawyer, and now legal anthropologist at Stanford.
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