The Scorched Earthly considers the use of the scorched-earth policy—and the many forms this military maneuver has taken up until the present—in terrains largely describable as either unceded or ungovernable. The highlands of north-eastern India and Myanmar (known as Zomia) and the lands of Indigenous people, especially the unceded territories in British Columbia, bear oral folklore that describe routine scorched-earth interventions. Zasha’s research accentuates poetic voices and artistic actions from these terrains connected by their bearing of scorched-earth maneuvers.
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