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Authored Books

Mosse, David (2012) The Saint in the Banyan tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. Berkeley: University of California Press. (The Anthropology of Christianity. A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)

Mosse, David (2005) Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. London; Ann Arbor, MI.: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David (2003) The Rule of Water. Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Mosse, David, ed. (2011) Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. New York; Oxford: Berghahn. (Volume 6, Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology)

Mosse, David and Lewis, David, eds. (2006) Development Brokers and Translators. The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.

Mosse, David and Lewis, David, eds. (2005) The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. London: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David, Farrington, John and Rew, Alan, eds. (1998) Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working With Complexity. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Mosse, David (2024) 'Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice.' In: Gilberthorpe, Emma, (ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges. London: Routledge, pp. 1-28. (ASA Monographs)

Mosse, David (2018) 'Caste, Religion and Nation: The relationship between Christianity and caste society in India and its misconstrual.' In: Jodhka, Surinder and Manor, James, (eds.), Contested hierarchies, persisting influence: Caste and power in twenty-first-century India. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, pp. 261-290.

Mosse, David (2017) '"Complexio oppositorum?" : religion, society, and power in the making of Catholicism in rural south India.' In: Napolitano, Valentina, Mayblin, Maya and Norget, Kristin, (eds.), The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Mosse, David and Kruckenberg, Lena (2017) 'Beyond the Ivory Tower: Researching Development Practice.' In: Crawford, Gordon, Kruckenberg, Lena, Loubere, Nicholas and Morgan, Rosemary, (eds.), Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections. London: Sage.

Mosse, David (2015) 'Caste and the conundrum of religion and development in India.' In: Tomalin, Emma, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 200-214. (Routledge International Handbooks)

Mosse, David (2015) 'Accommodation, reconciliation and rebellion in the history of Tamil Catholicism.' In: Malekandathil, Pius, Pachuau, Joy L.K. and Sarkar, Tanika, (eds.), Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge. New Delhi: Primus Books, 185 -203.

Mosse, David (2011) 'Aid, adivasis and aspirations for development in western India.' In: Rycroft, Daniel and Dasgupta, Sangeeta, (eds.), The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi. London: Routledge, pp. 154-174. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Mosse, David (2011) 'Introduction: The Anthropology of Expertise and Professionals in International Development.' In: Mosse, David, (ed.), Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. Oxford: Berghahn.

Mosse, David (2011) 'Politics and ethics: ethnographies of expert knowledge and professional identities.' In: Wright, Susan and Shore, Cris, (eds.), Policy Worlds: Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 50-67. (EASA Series)

Mosse, David (2011) 'Social analysis as corporate product: Non-Economists/anthropologists at work in the World Bank in Washington DC.' In: Mosse, David, (ed.), Adventures in Aidland: The anthropology of professionals in international development. Oxford: Berghahn.

Mosse, David (2010) 'The Catholic Church and Dalit Christian activism in contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Robinson, Rowena and Kujūra, Josepha Mariyānusa, (eds.), Margins of Faith. New Delhi: Sage.

Mosse, David (2009) 'Christian Dalit activism in contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Gellner, David N., (ed.), Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage. (Governance, Conflict and Civic Action)

Mosse, David (2009) 'The rule of water: uncertainty and the cultural ecology of water in south India.' In: Tvedt, Terje and Oestigaard, Terje, (eds.), Ideas of Water: From Ancient Societies to the Modern World. London: I.B. Tauris. (A history of water, Ser. 2, Vol. 1.)

Mosse, David (2008) 'Collective action, common property and social capital in south India: an anthropological commentary.' In: Ray, Isha and Bardhan, Pranab, (eds.), The contested commons: conversations between economists and anthropologists. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 83-106.

Rossi, Benedetta (2006) 'Aid Policies and Recipient Strategies in Niger.' In: Lewis, David and Mosse, David, (eds.), Development brokers and translators: the ethnography of aid and agencies. Bloomfield: Kumarian, pp. 27-50.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Possession and Confession. Affliction and Sacred Power in Colonial and Contemporary Catholic South India.' In: Cannell, F., (ed.), The Anthropology of Christianity. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, pp. 99-133.

Mosse, David (2005) 'Global Governance and the Ethnography of International Aid.' In: Mosse, David and Lewis, David, (eds.), The Aid Effect. Giving and Governing in International Development. London: Pluto Press, pp. 1-36.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Power relations and poverty reduction.' In: Alsop, Ruth, (ed.), Power, rights and poverty: concepts and connections. Washington DC: The World Bank, pp. 51-67.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Social analysis as product development: anthropologists at work in the World Bank.' In: Giri, Ananta Kumar, van Harskamp, Avan and Salemink, Oscar, (eds.), The development of religion / the religion of development. Amsterdam: Eburon B V, pp. 77-87.

Quarles van Ufford, Philip, Giri, Ananta Kumar and Mosse, David (2003) 'Interventions in development: towards a new moral understanding of our experiences and an agenda for the future.' In: Quarles van Ufford, Philip and Giri, Ananta Kumar, (eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. London: Routledge, pp. 3-43.

Mosse, David (2003) 'The making and marketing of participatory development.' In: Quarles van Ufford, Philip and Giri, Ananta Kumar, (eds.), A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities. London: Routledge, pp. 43-75.

Mosse, David (2001) 'Irrigation and statecraft in Zamindari south India.' In: Fuller, C. J. and Bénéï, Véronique, (eds.), The everyday state and society in modern India. London: Hurst, pp. 163-193.

Mosse, David (2001) ''People's knowledge', participation and patronage: operations and representations in rural development.' In: Cook, Bill and Kothari, Uma, (eds.), Participation : the new tyranny? London: Zed Press, pp. 16-35.

Mosse, David (2001) 'Social Research in rural development projects.' In: Gellner, David N. and Hirsch, Eric, (eds.), Inside organizations: anthropologists at work. Oxford: Berg, pp. 1577-182.

Mosse, David (1999) 'Responding to subordination: identity and change among south Indian Untouchable castes.' In: Campbell, John and Rew, Alan, (eds.), Identity and affect: experiences of identity in a globalising world. London: Pluto Press.

Mosse, David (1998) 'Process documentation and process monitoring: cases and issues.' In: Mosse, David, Farrington, John and Rew, Alan, (eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity. London: Routledge, pp. 31-53.

Mosse, David (1998) 'Process-oriented approaches to development practice and social research: an introduction.' In: Mosse, David, Farrington, John and Rew, Alan, (eds.), Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity. London: Routledge, pp. 1-30. (Routledge Research/ODI Development Policy Studies)

Mosse, David (1997) 'Honour, Caste and Conflict: The Ethnohistory of a Catholic Festival in Rural Tamil Nadu (1730-1990).' In: Assayag, Jackie and Tarabout, Gilles, (eds.), Altérité et identité. Islam et christianisme en Inde. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Science, pp. 71-120. (Collection Purushartha)

Mosse, David (1996) 'The Ideology and Politics of community participation tank-irrigation development in colonial and contemporary Tamil Nadu.' In: Grillo, R. D. and Stirrat, R. L., (eds.), Discourse of Development: anthropological perspectives. Oxford: Berg, pp. 255-291.

Journal Article

Mosse, David, Baker, Darren, Carroll, Molly, Chase, Liana E., Kloocke, Ruth, Wickremasinghe, Kiara, Cramer, Bethan, Pratt-Boyden, Keira and Wuerth, Milena (2023) 'The Contribution of Anthropology to the Study of Open Dialogue: Ethnographic Research Methods and Opportunities.' Frontiers in Psychology, 14. p. 1111588.

Jadhav, Sushrut, Pathania, Gaurav J., Thorat, Amit, Mosse, David and Jain, Sumeet (2023) 'Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities.' Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 4 (1). 03-23.

Mosse, David, Pocobello, Raffaella, Saunders, Rob, Seikkula, Jaakko and von Peter, Sebastian (2023) 'Introduction: Open Dialogue around the world – implementation, outcomes, experiences and perspectives.' Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 13. p. 1093351.

Cassidy, Sarah, Au-Yeung, Sheena, Robertson, Ashley, Cogger-Ward, Heather, Richards, Gareth, Allison, Carrie, Bradley, Louise, Kenny, Rebecca, O'Connor, Rory, Mosse, David, Rodgers, Jacqui and Baron-Cohen, Simon (2022) 'Autism and autistic traits in those who died by suicide in England.' The British Journal of Psychiatry, 221 (5). pp. 683-691.

Marsh, Ian, Marzano, Lisa, Mosse, David and Mackenzie, Jay-Marie (2021) 'First-person accounts of the processes and planning involved in a suicide attempt on the railway.' BJPsych Open, 7 (e39). pp. 1-7.

Mosse, David and Nagappan, Sundara Babu (2020) 'NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India.' Development and Change, 52 (1). pp. 134-167.

Mosse, David (2020) 'The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy.' Modern Asian Studies, 54 (4). pp. 1225-1271.

Mosse, David (2020) 'Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62 (1). pp. 4-34.

Mosse, David (2019) 'Can the Experience of Participatory Development Help Think Critically about ‘Patient and Public Involvement’ in UK Healthcare?' Sociological Research Online, 24 (3). pp. 444-461.

Richards, G., Kenny, Rebecca, Griffiths, S., Allison, Carrie, Mosse, David, Holt, R., O'Connor, R.C., Cassidy, Sarah and Baron-Cohen, Simon (2019) 'Autistic traits in adults who have attempted suicide.' Molecular Autism, 10 (26).

Mosse, David (2018) 'Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage.' World Development, 110. pp. 422-436.

Mosse, David, Jadhav, Sushrut and Dostaler, Ned (2016) 'Minds of caste – Discrimination and its Affects.' Anthropology Today, 32 (1). pp. 1-2.

Mosse, David (2015) 'Class, Caste and the Reproduction of Privilege.' Anthropology of this Century, 14.

Mosse, David (2015) 'Misunderstood, misrepresented, contested? Anthropological knowledge production in question.' Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 72. pp. 128-137.

Mosse, David (2014) 'Knowledge as Relational: Reflections on Knowledge in International Development.' Forum for Development Studies, 41 (3). pp. 513-523.

Mosse, David (2013) 'The Anthropology of International Development.' Annual Review of Anthropology, 42. pp. 227-246.

Mosse, David (2012) 'Caste and Christianity.' Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, 633. pp. 58-63.

Mosse, David (2010) 'A Relational Approach to Durable Poverty, Inequality and Power.' Journal of Development Studies, 46 (7). pp. 1156-1178.

Mosse, David (2008) 'Epilogue: The cultural politics of water – a comparative perspective.' Journal of Southern African Studies, 34 (4). pp. 937-946.

Mosse, David (2008) 'International policy, development expertise, and anthropology.' Focaal, 52. pp. 119-126.

Mosse, David (2008) 'The anthropology of international institutions (Conference Report).' Anthropology Today, 24 (5). p. 24.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Anti-social anthropology? Objectivity, objection, and the ethnography of public policy and professional communities.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (4). pp. 935-956.

Mosse, David (2006) 'Collective Action, Common Property, and Social Capital in South India: An Anthropological Commentary.' Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54 (3). pp. 695-724.

Mosse, David and Lewis, David (2006) 'Encountering Order and Disjuncture: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on the Organisation of Development.' Oxford Development Studies, 34 (1).

Mosse, David (2006) 'Rule and representation: transformations in the governance of the water commons in British south India.' The Journal of Asian Studies, 65 (1). pp. 61-90.

Mosse, David (2005) 'On the margins in the city: adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India.' Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (28). pp. 3025-3038.

Mosse, David (2004) 'Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice.' Development and Change, 35 (4). pp. 639-671.

Mosse, David, Gupta, Sanjeev, Mehta, M, Shah, V and Rees, J (2002) 'Brokered livelihoods: debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India.' Journal of Development Studies, 38 (5). pp. 59-88.

Mosse, David (1999) 'Colonial and contemporary ideologies of community management: the case of tank irrigation development in South India.' Modern Asian Studies, 33 (2). pp. 303-338.

Mosse, David (1997) 'The symbolic making of a common property resource: history, ecology and locality in a tank irrigated landscape in South India.' Development and Change, 28 (3). pp. 467-504.

Mosse, David (1996) 'South Indian Christians, purity/impurity and the caste system: death ritual in a Tamil Roman Catholic community.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2 (3). pp. 461-483.

Monographs and Working Papers

Dhanda, M, Mosse, David, Waughray, A, Keane, D, Green, Roger, Iafrati, S and Mundy, Jessie Kate (2014) Caste in Britain: Experts' Seminar and Stakeholders' Workshop. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 92.

Dhanda, M, Waughray, A, Keane, D, Green, Roger, Mosse, David and Whittle, S (2014) Caste in Britain: Socio-legal Review. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 91.

Mosse, David (2007) Power and the durability of poverty: a critical exploration of the links between culture, marginality and chronic poverty. Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) Working Paper 107.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Mosse, David (2021) Critical Scholarship in Perilous Times: a Conversation with David Mosse, Winner of the 2021 Jack Goody Award. Comparative Studies in Society and History [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Mosse, David and Kravel-Tovi, Michal (2020) Anti-Caste Activism and Dwindling Numbers: David Mosse and Michal Kravel-Tovi discuss Diasporic Anxieties among British South Asians and American Jews. Comparative Studies in Society and History [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]