webinar 27 february 2026 - Conservation Projects in Adivasi Areas: Another Face of Militarisation and Land Expropriation

 Session 9: Conservation Projects in Adivasi Areas: Another Face of Militarisation and Land Expropriation

Registration is now open for this next session of ‘Deadline or Death Sentence: State Violence and Indigenous (Adivasi) Peoples' Resistance in India'

Date: Friday 27 February 2026

Time: 8:00 pm India; 2:30 pm London; 9:30am New York

Registration link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/meeting/register/fohe9FiiTS--n-iDWkQKsQ

This series critically interrogates the Indian state’s 2026 “Maoist-free” deadline and its violent consequences for Indigenous peoples’ lives and livelihoods.

The Adivasis have consistently resisted the structural violence by Indian forest authorities against their relationship with landscape and forests they depend upon and live in. More recently, in Adivasi regions across India, conservation areas such as tiger reserves are being created alongside extensive militarisation and military operations in the name of wiping out the Maoist/Naxalite movement. Our speakers will explore the deep links between Indian state’s forest conservation policies with its wider goals of expropriating Adivasi land, forests, and natural resources on behalf of capital.