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The Jungle Rani Initiative and Indigenous Media Futures

In: Studies in World Cinema
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Lakshmi Priya N Institute of English, University of Kerala , Thiruvananthapuram, India

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Abstract

In India, new technologies and social media have enabled Adivasi communities to create innovative visual narratives that challenge colonial and nationalist misrepresentations. Within this context, this study offers a close reading of the social media initiative Jungle Rani Initiative (2023), founded by Adivasi journalist and community leader Jayanti Buruda from the Koya community in Malkangiri district, Odisha. The study argues that Indigenous visual storytelling mobilizes the mediated spaces of technology and new media to assert and claim Indigenous sovereignty. By documenting everyday practices while foregrounding Adivasi women as leaders and storytellers, the social media initiative advances an Adivasi feminist project of self-representation through media. Situated within the broader wave of Indigenous media productions in India, the initiative creates decolonial visualities and forges new frameworks for sovereignty, feminist autonomy, and epistemic justice.

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