Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart

<b>Dolly Kikon</b> is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the political economy of extractive resources militarisation migration indigeneity food cultures and human rights in India. She is the author of <i>Life and Dignity: Women’s Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Dimapur</i> (Nagaland) (2015); <i>Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarisation in Northeast India</i> (2019); <i>Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India</i> (2019); <i>Ceasefire City: Militarism Capitalism and Urbanism in Dimapur</i> (2021); and <i>Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences</i> (2023).<br><br><b>Joel Rodrigues</b> is the author of <i>Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences</i> (2023). Joel is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology Stockholm University. His writings have been featured in Gastronomica Morung Express and ‘Raiot.in’. He has a bachelor’s degree in mass media and a master’s in peace and conflict studies. His peace research work engages with law violence memory food and media. Born in Mumbai Joel has lived in Northeast India for a decade now. <b><i>Food Journeys</i></b> is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences and the meaning of grief rage solidarity and life. Feminist anthropologist Dolly Kikon and peace researcher Joel Rodrigues present a wide-ranging set of stories and essays accompanied by recipes. They bring together poets activists artists writers and researchers who explore how food and eating allow us to find joy and strength while navigating a violent history of militarization in Northeast India. <i>Food Journeys</i> takes us to the tea plantations of Assam the lofty mountains of Sikkim the homes of a brewer and a baker in Nagaland a chef’s journey from Meghalaya a trip to the paddy fields in Bangladesh and many more sites to reveal why people from Northeast India intimately care about what they eat and consider food an integral part of their history politics and community. Deliciously feminist and bold <i>Food Journeys</i> is both an invitation and a challenge to recognize gender and lived experiences as critical aspects of political life.