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Authored Books

Alpa, Shah, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vikramaditya (2018) Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India. London and New Delhi: Pluto Press. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Denbabaali, D., Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vikramaditya (2017) Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. London: Pluto Press. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Crewe, Emma and Axelby, Richard (2012) Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Axelby, Richard and Hoyler, Telma, eds. (2024) Living Democracy: Open Conversations. London: SOAS University of London Books.

Book Chapters

Axelby, Richard (2023) 'Colin Rosser and the ‘Hermit’ Village of Malana: a lost classic of Village Studies Ethnography.' In: Rosser, Colin and Thakur, Kulwant Singh, (eds.), Malana: the Political System of a Himalayan Community. Dhamserh: Tharah Kardu, xi-xx.

Axelby, Richard and Bulgheroni, Maura (2021) 'Old Ways and New Routes: Climate threats and adaptive possibilities in the Indian Himalayas.' In: Natarajan, Nithya and Parsons, Laurie, (eds.), Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Axelby, Richard and Rigaud, Suzanne (2019) 'The Hermit Village of Malana: An Update on Community Democracy and the Management of Change in the Himalayas.' In: Jodhka, Surinder and Simpson, Edward, (eds.), India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions. India: Oxford University Press, pp. 326-352.

Crewe, Emma and Axelby, Richard (2018) 'International Development, Anthropology in.' In: Callan, Hilary, (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Wiley.

Axelby, Richard (2017) 'Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh.' In: Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Raj, Jayaseelan and Thakur, Vineet, (eds.), Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. London: Pluto Press, pp. 143-175. (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Journal Article

Axelby, Richard and Thakur, Vikramaditya (2024) 'Relational Marginalisation: Comparing Scheduled Tribe Gaddi in Himachal Pradesh and Bhils in Maharashtra, India.' Sociological Bulletin, 73 (1). pp. 24-45.

Axelby, Richard (2023) 'How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.' Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42 (2). pp. 21-35.

Axelby, Richard, Worku-Dix, Beth and Crewe, Emma (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). pp. 1496-1508.

Axelby, Richard (2020) 'The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi: Emancipatory visions and insurgent citizenship among Gujjars in Himachal Pradesh.' Modern Asian Studies, 54 (3). pp. 868-897.

Raj, Jayaseelan and Axelby, Richard (2019) 'From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53 (2). pp. 272-298.

Axelby, Richard (2016) '‘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. pp. 1-16.

Axelby, Richard (2015) 'Hermit Village or Zomian Republic? An update on the political socio-economy of a remote Himalayan community.' European Bulletin of Himalayan research, 46. pp. 35-61.

Axelby, Richard (2008) 'Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment.' Archives of natural history, 35 (1). pp. 150-163.

Axelby, Richard (2007) '‘It Takes Two Hands to Clap’: How Gaddi Shepherds in the Indian Himalayas Negotiate Access to Grazing.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 7 (1). pp. 35-75.

Monographs and Working Papers

Kaur, Jastinder, Crewe, Emma, Axelby, Richard, Thitsar, Myat Thet, Tadesse, Sewit and Massoumian, Amir (2021) International Research Coalitions: UK universities learning to be better partners. London: Global Research Network on Parliaments and People.

Book Reviews

Axelby, Richard (2024) 'Review of: Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands, by Seb Rumsby Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.' The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 25 (2). pp. 212-214.