Dixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Fellow at North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati. Currently, she is working on a project on food sovereignty funded by the Swedish Research Council. Co-written with her project team, Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023) is her first book which brings together farmers, researchers, activists, and students in reflecting on the future of seeds and indigenous food in the Eastern Himalayas. In 2021, she received her PhD degree in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus, and her thesis focused on the symbiotic relation between power and violence in explaining the politics of memorialising the extra-judicial killings in Assam. Her writings are published in academic journals/press like Asian Ethnicity, Zubaan, Economic & Political Weekly, International Journal for Intersectional Feminist Studies, South Asia@ LSE, Seminar, as well as in print/popular media like The Assam Tribune, The Telegraph, Frontline, The Daily Star, Raiot, The India Forum, amongst others. She has received the Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from Northeast India in 2019, the Annual VMMF-IAWS Young Research Scholar’s Award 2020, and has been a Fellow at the South Asia Speaks literary mentorship program 2022.
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