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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.

From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India (2019)
Journal Article
Raj, J., & Axelby, R. (2019). From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53(2), 272-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719836881

This article examines the circumstances in which the tasks performed by professional labour contractors may be passed on to worker-agents. It does so by critically engaging with the experience of migrant workers from the eastern Indian state of Jhark... Read More about From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India.

International Development, Anthropology in (2018)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E., & Axelby, R. (2018). International Development, Anthropology in. In H. Callan (Ed.), The Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2016

The direct involvement of anthropologists in international development ebbs and flows, while ethnographic researchers consistently offer a critique of aid, especially the damage it causes. Anthropologists' navigation of the ethics, pressures, and con... Read More about International Development, Anthropology in.

Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh (2017)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R. (2017). Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh. In A. Shah, J. Lerche, R. Axelby, D. Benbabaali, B. Donegan, J. Raj, & V. Thakur (Eds.), Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India (143-175). Pluto Press

‘Who Has the Stick Has the Buffalo’: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion on a Pasture in the Indian Himalayas (2016)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. ‘Who Has the Stick Has the Buffalo’: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion on a Pasture in the Indian Himalayas. South Asia multidisciplinary academic journal, 13, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4096

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over a period of ten years this article details the access arrangements that govern the use of a grazing pasture in Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh, India. Following Ribot and Peluso’s (2003) distinction... Read More about ‘Who Has the Stick Has the Buffalo’: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion on a Pasture in the Indian Himalayas.

Hermit Village or Zomian Republic? An update on the political socio-economy of a remote Himalayan community (2015)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2015). Hermit Village or Zomian Republic? An update on the political socio-economy of a remote Himalayan community. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 46, 35-61

Hidden in a remote valley in Himachal Pradesh, the Village of Malana appears as a self-governing egalitarian community cosmologically committed to evading external influence. With its own system of village government and its own court for settling di... Read More about Hermit Village or Zomian Republic? An update on the political socio-economy of a remote Himalayan community.

Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World (2012)
Book
Crewe, E., & Axelby, R. (2012). Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030403

In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in... Read More about Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World.

Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment (2008)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2008). Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment. Archives of Natural History, 35(1), 150-163. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0260954108000144

This article examines three hand-painted colour maps that accompanied the annual report of the Calcutta Botanic Garden for 1846 to illustrate how the Garden’s layout, uses and functions had changed over the previous 30 years. The evolution of the Cal... Read More about Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment.

‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing (2007)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2007). ‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing. Journal of Agrarian Change, 7(1), 35-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00139.x

This article examines the effects of state intervention on the workings of informal institutions that coordinate the communal use and management of natural resources. Specifically it focuses on the case of the nomadic Gaddi shepherds and official att... Read More about ‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing.