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Traveling through wars, kinship relations, livelihoods, tourism sites with non-human co travellers

Welcome to first episode of Travel Matters. I, Ishita Dey will be your host for today.

Travel can be therapeutic, and empowering. One of the well tested health advice that has stood the test of time is change of weather - be it a hill station, or sea side. With advancement of medical technologies people started crossing borders for medical treatment to cities so much so that have a dedicated visa to enable travellers. However not everyone had it easy.  Get ready to experience how women travellers were scrutinised in embassies if they were travelling for leisure or for abortion. Also, how open borders and visa on arrival helped surrogacy tourism to expand. Join us on this twenty-minute global tour with pit stops at Chicago, Tokyo, Sweden, Poland, Anand and Cambodia. 

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Welcome to Travel Matters. Professor Rukmini Sen of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi and I Dr. Ishita Dey of South Asian University, Delhi will be your hosts on travel matters. Rukmini is a Teacher, Plant and dog nurturer, Reader, Diarist and traveller. She teaches courses on law, kinship, gender, and culture as part of the School of Liberal Studies at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi. Dr. Ishita Dey teaches at the Department of Sociology, South Asian University. She teaches courses on food, gender, and social stratification as part of the Sociology curriculum at South Asian University, Delhi. She loves to maintain a diary of imaginary travel maps based on fiction, non-fiction and travel shows that have shaped my ideas of places, people and culture. 

In this podcast we will be bring to you ten episodes on themes related to travel ranging from intimacy, health, love, death, non-human travel, botanical travel etc None of them will help you to be a tourist but we hope it will help us to understand history, sociology, and anthropology of travel. How did non-humans travel through human regulated borders? Can Royal Bengal Tigers travel to Africa? How are flowers transported? An engagement with history and sociology of travel we hope will open our ideas about how cultures could not evolve without the influence of others and travel has played a prominent role. Join us as we take you through a time machine of discursive travel. Do not forget to leave your comments by writing to us - travelmattersconnect@gmail.com.