Film Screening: Conservation in India - Part of the CARE Workshop Series 2024.11.13
Wednesday, November 13 from 5pm to 7pm
IBS 150, 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
We are thrilled to invite you to join us for a special film screening, A Flaming Forest, as the final event of the Institute of Behavioral Science and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies’ Conservation and Relational Ecologies (CARE) Workshop series. This screening provides a powerful exploration of Indigenous resistance and resilience in conservation, set against the backdrop of India’s Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve.
Film Description:
The Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve in Karnataka is home to the Soliga adivasis. This film traverses the rich tapestry of the BRT forest and the intricate relationships that the Soligas hold with it. It traces the effects of exclusionary conservation policy, which has led to large scale evictions and denial of rights for Soligas since 1974. Soliga resistance to these changes has stretched across five decades. Their articulations challenge dominant approaches of a conservation model that relies on forced evictions, and emphasises their customary and legal rights to the forest. With restrictions placed on customary Soliga practices such as swidden agriculture and forest fires, the forest is now ravaged by invasive plants such as Lantana camara. This film is a culmination of a two-decade long collaboration between researchers and filmmakers.Through a long-term engagement, the film documents the story of contestation and loss - both social and ecological - and calls for an alternative vision for conservation.
Panelists:
Dr. Nitin Rai, Independent Researcher
Dr. C Madegowda, Tribal Rights Activist and researcher, ATREE and Soligara Abhivriddhi Sangha
This event is hosted by the Institute of Behavioral Science and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, and supported by the Center for Asian Studies.
For more information on the CARE Workshop series, please visit @cubouldercnais on Instagram or follow this link: www.colorado.edu/cnais/events/conservation-and-relational-ecologies-care-workshop