Indigenous communities in India have perpetually experienced deafening silence to their evolutionary movements in the past and the present era to retain life-places. The Adivasi movements evoking a sense of belonging has been manipulated to create dubious efficacy and psychic numbing of the ‘Affects’. Emotional forms of affects such as anxiety, fear and sorrow birthed geological epoch characterized by significant human impact on the environment. Grounding Bio-politics and psychoterratic disorders Adivasi existence is enforced in a cognitive apparatus than socially existential apparatus. Gradually these insurgent wars were conditioned to speechless terror and prosthetic memories. Thus, the Adivasi communities exhibit their struggle through the digital medium to question, resist and condemn the climate grief, socio-horrors and Global weirding through their own art dexterity mediated in graphic forms. This paper interrogates the way the wars has transitioned to digital protest to express compassion fatigue enforced on the Adivasi communities. The archived graphic medium becomes the residual tribal community in sustenance. The chosen works such as Our Forest Dreams (2020) by The Nilgiris Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Federation and Tribal Leaders of the Freedom Struggle by Reena Ittyerah Puri (2023) delineate tribal history by using ‘Affect eco-criticism’ as a theoretical compass to identify Adivasi histories, emotions, embodiments embedded in a life-place which is invasively raided by industrio-scientific paradigms leading to climate emergency and ecocide of a life-place.

Authors:
Ranjini G, Ethiraj College For Women, India

About the Presenter(s)
Ranjini G is a Senior Research Fellow whose interest has led to dwell deep into varied literature such as Indigenous, Graphic and Museum Studies. The corresponding Research Work has been presented in many International conferences.

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