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Talking CultureSurfaces for the PossibleIn this episode, Khando Langri discusses what she conceives of as "surfaces for the possible;" surfaces which help exiled Tibetans navigate what Edward Said describes as the pathos of exile. Focusing on the roads built by Tibetan refugees in the 1960s, she posits that in enacting everyday acts of beauty - planting flowers in repurposed oil cans, work songs sung against a backdrop of rock breaking - refugees recast foreign landscapes into collective spaces of survival and transformation.2022-03-2427 min
(R)Aging AsiansEpisode 8: Mz. World Wide, Tibetan Road Construction Camps & Community Activism ft. Khando LangriKhando Langri is a good friend of mine who I met in several of my anthropology classes. We were both active in campus organizing & protesting, and she started the Students for Free Tibet at McGill. She's working on her master's thesis on Tibetan road construction and the camps in India, laying the foundations for her PhD. She talks about what it's like to be born outside of Tibet and what it means to engage with an exiled community and their landscape.2021-08-021h 09