#74: Aditya Kakati: Academia, Food, Northeast India, WW2, Geneva

Reuben's Podcast

Support the podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/reubenn⁠⁠⁠⁠ Chapters 00:00-Being Student's Union President at Stephen's 04:50-Recap of the last decade 06:25-Favorite memory from Stephen's 08:45-Moving to Geneva and pursuing Academia 17:00-The PhD experience and reflections 21:10-Changes through the PhD 25:40-Knowing too much 32:25-"Layered" Life in Geneva 37:03-The History of Anthropology 45:30-Studying Food and Northeast India 53:20-Deciding a PhD topic 57:50-Studying WW2 and Conflict in Northeast India 1:16:55-What's next for Aditya 1:20:20-What drives a PhD 1:25:25-Shifts in belief 1:36:00-2 pieces of advice 1:39:05-Question for Reuben 1:47:20-Wrapping up Aditya's Socials

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Academic Work

• The "Unmasking the prejudice and politics of Food" podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZnhqWA4Z6W4EVDmWPE48y?si=nmrhFSIITN-8S1WqGDYMCw
• Ethnographic poem (published in an anthropology journal): https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anhu.12359
• academia.edu page: https://www.academia.edu/61937167/Depth_of_Field_Disorienting_the_Ethnographic_Gaze_through_Zeme_Naga_Realms
• "Elephant in the Room: Tracing culture as a strategic resource in food-politics, racism, and resistance in contemporary Naga social history": https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/8044
• How Global War Memory in the Indo-Myanmar Border-Zones is Refashioning “Remote” Places: https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/how-global-war-memory-indo-myanmar-border-zones-refashioning-remote-places
• For the Love of Pork: Eating in Ethnic Enclaves: https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/edcoll/9781848883246/BP000012.xml

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