Don’t Call Me Resilient

Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Don’t Call Me Resilient

Show Notes

Vinita speaks to two famine scholars about the use of starvation as a tool in the colonizer's playbook through two historic examples - the decimation of Indigenous populations in the Plains, North America and the 1943 famine in Bengal, India.

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