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Uncuff India

Uncuff India

One Future Collective

Uncuff India is a limited episode English audio podcast produced and hosted by One Future Collective. Each episode welcomes a new guest, with lived experience and/or professional or academic expertise on the theme of Violence and the State. This podcast has been produced to lay bare the various ways in which the State can be/has been violent towards its citizens in the Indian context.

Each episode will also be accompanied with the Uncuff India Prize where listeners can send in literary, art, audio, and visual pieces inspired by the episodes. To know more about the prize, click here: bit.ly/UncuffIndiaPrize_MoreInfo.

You can read the episode transcripts on our website: www.onefuturecollective.org

10 - Dimensions of conflict and peace: visioning a utopian world
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  • 10 - Dimensions of conflict and peace: visioning a utopian world

    Having unpacked various forms of state violence through the podcast, in this final episode, we contend with the questions- what is the way forward and how do we build towards our ideal world? In an insightful discussion with Amitabh Behar, CEO of Oxfam India, we explore what solutions for social justice challenges can look like, who needs to be involved, and how best we can involve them to build towards conflict resolution in our quest for social justice.

    You can read the transcript at: https://bit.ly/UncuffIndia_E10Transcript

    Wed, 24 Jan 2024
  • 9 - Civic space and dissent: a pathway to social justice

    As protests by civilians continue and are forcefully suppressed, it becomes essential to confront the state's response to dissent. This episode engages with the relevance of protests in today's political climate. Neha Dixit, an independent journalist based out of New Delhi, speaks to us about their experiences of reporting state violence and social inequity and the cost and consequence of speaking truth to power. She focuses on the intersection of politics, gender and Social Justice in South Asia through long form, investigative, narrative pieces. She has reported for publications including Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Washington Post, among others.

    You can read transcript: https://bit.ly/UncuffIndia_E9Transcript

    Wed, 10 Jan 2024
  • 8 - Global affinity towards right wing governance: co-creating a civil society

    A fresh episode of Uncuff India to round up the year!

    In this episode, we explore the global rise in right wing governance and what this translates into for social justice and human rights movements across different socio-political contexts. Our remarkable guest Dr Cynthia Enloe also touches upon citizen responses tothe resurgence of right-wing governance.Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor of Politics and Women's Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts. Her teaching and writing has explored feminist questions about the interplay of patriarchy and militarism in women's lives around the world. Among her books are "Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics" and "Manoeuvres: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives."

    You can read the transcript at: https://bit.ly/UncuffIndia_E8Transcript

    Thu, 14 Dec 2023
  • 7 - Resisting gender-based violence by armed forces

    Uncuff India is back with a fresh episode!

    In this episode, we attempt to understand the differential impact of armed violence on women and the impunity state forces enjoy. Through real-life examples from the Indian context, our magnetic guest, Chitrangi Kakoti, talks us through what we can do to preserve memory regarding these incidents of armed violence. Chitrangi Kakoti has an MSc. in East Asian Relations and an MA in Critical Gender Studies. Her research interests broadly include gender and security studies, feminist social movements, cyberfeminism, and sexuality studies. Currently, she is working as a Senior Program Associate at TARSHI, a Delhi-based NGO.

    CW: Various forms of abuse, self-immolation

    You can read the transcript at: https://bit.ly/UncuffIndia_E7Transcript

    Wed, 22 Nov 2023
  • 6 - Writing about state violence from religious margins

    Uncuff India is going strong- the sixth episode is now live!


    In this episode, we unpack experiences of reporting acts of State violence against people of marginalised religious communities, especially by people of these communities. We also revisit the idea of State violence and reconstruct its scope to include the lived experiences of people who find themselves on religious margins and focus on the different agents that have led to normalisation of State violence. It also delves into the personal impact of reporting incidents of State violence and what helps sustain the fight to hold the State accountable. For this episode, we have the effervescent Fatima Khan join us. Fatima Khan is a senior correspondent at The Quint where she covers national politics, hate crimes and social justice. She is a recipient of the International Press Institute award for Covid reporting, a UNFPA Laadli award for gender reporting and the Human Rights Religious Freedom Journalism Awards, 2023 for her video series on the imapct of the Hijab ban in Karnataka.

    CW: Riots, Hate Crimes, Physical Abuse, Lynching, Islamophobia

    Wed, 25 Oct 2023
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