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Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2024)
When decolonisation is hijacked.
American Anthropologist.
ISSN 0002-7294
(In Press)
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2022)
Why I write? In a climate against intellectual dissidence.
Current Anthropology, 63 (5).
570 - 600.
ISSN 0011-3204
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2021)
What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Democracy by sortition, liberal elections and communist revolutionaries.
Development and Change, 52 (4).
pp. 687-728.
ISSN 0012-155X
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Lerche, Jens
(2021)
Black Lives Matter, capital and ideology: spiraling out from India.
British Journal of Sociology, 72.
pp. 93-105.
ISSN 0007-1315
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2021)
For an anthropological theory of praxis: dystopic utopia in Indian Maoism and the rise of the Hindu right.
Social Anthropology, 29 (1).
68 - 86.
ISSN 0964-0282
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Lerche, Jens
(2020)
Migration and the invisible economies of care: production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45 (4).
719 - 734.
ISSN 0020-2754
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Lerche, Jens
(2018)
Conjugated oppression under contemporary capitalism: class relations, social oppression and agrarian change in India.
Journal of Peasant Studies, 45 (5-6).
pp. 927-949.
ISSN 0306-6150
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2017)
Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis.
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7 (1).
pp. 1-15.
ISSN 2049-1115
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Jain, Dhruv
(2017)
Naxalbari at its Golden Jubilee: Fifty recent books on the Maoist movement in India.
Modern Asian Studies, 51 (4).
pp. 1165-1219.
ISSN 0026-749X
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2017)
Humaneness and contradictions: India’s Maoist-inspired Naxalites.
Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (21).
ISSN 0012-9976
Ismail, Feyzi and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2015)
Class struggle, the Maoists and the indigenous question in Nepal and India.
Economic and Political Weekly, L (35).
pp. 112-123.
ISSN 0012-9976
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2014)
The muck of the past: revolution, social transformation, and the Maoists in India.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20 (2).
337 - 356.
ISSN 1359-0987
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2014)
Religion and the secular left: subaltern studies, birsa munda and maosits.
Anthropology of This Century (9).
0-0.
ISSN 2047-6345
Higham, Rob and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
Conservative force or contradictory resource?: education and affirmative action in Jharkhand, India.
Compare: a Journal of Comparative and International Education, 43 (6).
pp. 718-739.
ISSN 0305-7925
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
Response to Nandini Sundar's response to 'the tensions over citizenship in a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary situation: the Maoists in India'.
Critique of Anthropology, 33 (4).
pp. 476-479.
ISSN 0308-275X
Lerche, Jens, Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Harriss-White, Barbara
(2013)
Introduction: agrarian questions and left politics in India.
Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (3).
pp. 337-350.
ISSN 1471-0358
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
The agrarian question in a maoist guerrilla zone: land, labour and capital in the forests and hills of Jharkhand, India.
Journal of Agrarian Change, 13 (3).
pp. 425-450.
ISSN 1471-0358
(Submitted)
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
The anti-politics of 'Declarations of dependence'.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2).
pp. 254-255.
ISSN 1359-0987
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: the Maoists in India.
Critique of Anthropology, 33 (1).
pp. 91-109.
ISSN 0308-275X
Higham, Rob and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
Affirmative action and political economic transformations: secondary education, indigenous people, and the state in Jharkhand, India.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 65.
ISSN 0920-1297
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
The intimacy of insurgency: beyond coercion, greed, or grievance in Maoist India. In a Special Issue edited by Stuart Corbridge and Alpa Shah.
Economy and Society, 42 (3).
pp. 480-506.
ISSN 0308-5147
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Shneiderman, Sara
(2013)
The practices, policies, and politics of transforming inequality in South Asia: ethnographies of affirmative action.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 65.
ISSN 0920-1297
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2012)
Eco-incarceration?: 'Walking with the Comrades'.
Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (21).
pp. 32-34.
ISSN 0012-9976
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2012)
Éliminer la classe, la caste et l’indigénéité dans l’Inde maoïste.
Terrain (58).
pp. 64-81.
ISSN 0760-5668
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Harriss-White, Barbara
(2011)
Resurrecting scholarship on agrarian studies in India.
Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI (39).
pp. 13-18.
ISSN 0012-9976
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2011)
Alcoholics Anonymous: the Maoist movement in Jharkhand, India.
Modern Asian Studies, 45 (05).
pp. 1095-1117.
ISSN 0026-749X
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Pettigrew, Judith
(2009)
Windows into a revolution: ethnographies of Maoism in South Asia.
Dialectical Anthropology, 33 (3-4).
pp. 225-251.
ISSN 0304-4092
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2009)
Morality, corruption and the state: insights from Jharkhand, Eastern India.
The Journal of Development Studies, 45 (3).
pp. 295-313.
ISSN 0022-0388
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2007)
Keeping the state away: democracy, politics and imaginations of the state in India’s Jharkhand.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (1).
pp. 129-145.
ISSN 1359-0987
(Submitted)
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2006)
Introduction: a double-edged sword: protection and state violence.
Critique of Anthropology, 26 (3).
pp. 251-257.
ISSN 0308-275X
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2006)
Markets of protection: the 'terrorist' maoist movement and the state in Jharkhand, India.
Critique of Anthropology, 26 (3).
pp. 297-314.
ISSN 0308-275X
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2006)
The labour of love: seasonal migration from Jharkhand to the brick kilns of other states in India.
Contributions to Indian Sociology, 40 (1).
pp. 91-118.
ISSN 0069-9667
Lewis, David ORCID: 0000-0003-0732-9020, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa
ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem and Duvall, Sandra
(2003)
Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects.
Journal of International Development, 15 (5).
pp. 541-557.
ISSN 0954-1748
Lerche, Jens and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2023)
Social oppression and exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in contemporary India.
In: Roy, Indrajit, (ed.)
Passionate politics: Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election.
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 157 - 168.
ISBN 9781526157720
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2011)
In search of certainty in revolutionary India.
In: Pettigrew, Judith, (ed.)
Windows Into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal.
Social Science Press, New Delhi, India.
ISBN 9788187358497
D' Mello, Bernard and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2011)
Preface.
In: Vanden, Harry E. and Becker, Mark, (eds.)
José Carlos Mariátegui: an Anthology.
Monthly Review Press, New York, USA.
ISBN 9781583672464
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2011)
India burning: the maoist movement.
In: Clark-Decès, Isabelle, (ed.)
A Companion to the Anthropology of India.
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 332-352.
ISBN 9781405198929
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2009)
Brick kiln workers from Jharkhand: the labour of love.
In: Deshingkar, Priya and Farrington, John, (eds.)
Circular Migration and Multi Locational Livelihoods Strategies in Rural India.
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, pp. 177-201.
ISBN 9780195699227
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2009)
Corruption: insights into combating corruption in rural development.
In: Sykes, Karen Margaret, (ed.)
Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes of a Global Age.
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, pp. 117-138.
ISBN 9780230609815
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2008)
Keeping the state away: democracy, politics and imaginations of the state in India’s Jharkhand.
In: Skoda, Uwe and Guzy, Lidia, (eds.)
Power Plays.
Indo-European Studies in Politics and Society.
Weissensee Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
ISBN 9783899981421
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2007)
Markets of protection: the maoist communist centre and the state in Jharkhand, India.
In: Pratten, David and Sen, Atreyee, (eds.)
Global Vigilantes.
Hurst Publishers (London, England), London, UK, pp. 291-318.
ISBN 9781850658382
Lewis, David ORCID: 0000-0003-0732-9020, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa
ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem and Duvall, Sandra
(2002)
Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organisational culture in multi-agency rural development projects.
International Working Paper Series (12).
Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science), London, UK.
ISBN 0753016117
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2024)
The incarcerations.
William Collins.
ISBN 9780008518806
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2018)
Nightmarch: among India's revolutionary guerrillas.
Hurst Publishers (London, England), London, UK.
ISBN 9781849049900
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Jayaseelan, Raj and Vikramditya, Thakur
(2017)
Ground down by growth: tribe, caste, class and inequality in 21st century India.
Pluto Press, London, UK.
ISBN 9780745337685
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516 and Pettigrew, Judith
(2011)
Windows into a revolution: ethnographies of maoism in India and Nepal.
Social Science Press, New Delhi, India.
ISBN 9788187358497
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2010)
In the shadows of the state: indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India.
Duke University Press, Durham, USA.
ISBN 9780822347651
Corbridge, Stuart and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2014)
The underbelly of the Indian boom.
South Asia @ LSE
(10 Sep 2014).
Website.
Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2013)
Why India’s poverty alleviation programmes don’t work.
South Asia @ LSE
(20 Feb 2013).
Website.
Rubins, Karen and Shah, Alpa ORCID: 0000-0003-1233-6516
(2017)
Cartoon abstract: Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis.
London School of Economics and Political Science.