Items where Author is "Shah, Alpa"

Article

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

Book Section

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

Monograph

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

Book

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

Online resource

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.

Audio/visual resource

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.