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Living Democracy: Open Conversations (2024)
Book
Massoumian, A., Bernardes, C., Leston-Bandeira, C., Crewe, E., Fontes, G., Kaur, J., Gabrehiwot, M., Van der Maarel, S., & Haddis, T. (2024). R. Axelby, & T. Hoyler (Eds.). Living Democracy: Open Conversations. SOAS University of London Books

Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R., & Thakur, V. (2024). Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India. Sociological Bulletin, 73(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229231212886

The socio-economic condition of Scheduled Tribe (ST) groups of India has been a key academic concern since the administrative category was established by Constitutional Order in 1950. This article explores the integration of ST groups into the presen... Read More about Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India.

How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2023). How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819

This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the... Read More about How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.

Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project (2022)
Journal Article
Axelby, R., Worku-Dix, B., & Crewe, E. (2022). Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project. Journal of International Development, 34(8), 1496-1508. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3649

This article describes the bureaucratic processes required to establish and manage a single international capacity-development project that brought together a funding council (AHRC), UK University (SOAS University of London) and universities and othe... Read More about Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project.

International Research Coalitions: UK universities learning to be better partners (2021)
Report
Kaur, J., Crewe, E., Axelby, R., Thitsar, M. T., Tadesse, S., & Massoumian, A. (2021). International Research Coalitions: UK universities learning to be better partners

In this learning paper on partnership we explain the Global Research Network on Parliaments and People (GRNPP) experience of managing international research coalitions. Our Deepening Democracy Programme was launched in 2017 in response to the pervasi... Read More about International Research Coalitions: UK universities learning to be better partners.

Old Ways and New Routes: Climate threats and adaptive possibilities in the Indian Himalayas (2021)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R., & Bulgheroni, M. (2021). Old Ways and New Routes: Climate threats and adaptive possibilities in the Indian Himalayas. In N. Natarajan, & L. Parsons (Eds.), Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367822903-7

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, this chapter will document the ways in which climate change impacts on social, political, and economic landscapes in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In the western Himalayas, altitude places limits on... Read More about Old Ways and New Routes: Climate threats and adaptive possibilities in the Indian Himalayas.

The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas (2019)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R., & Rigaud, S. (2019). The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas. In S. Jodhka, & E. Simpson (Eds.), India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (326-352). Oxford University Press

In the decades that followed Independence, the study of rural society became the backbone for new sociological understandings of India. This chapter starts with one of these accounts –Colin Rosser’s study of the ‘hermit’villageof Malana –and... Read More about The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas.

The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh (2019)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2020). The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh. Modern Asian Studies, 54(3), 868-897. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X18000471

Exploring the intersection of state, religion, and ethnicity, this article considers the opportunities for individual and collective advancement available to Muslim Gujjars in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. Following the lives of three prominen... Read More about The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh.