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Number of items: 54.
Anthropology
  • Shah, Alpa (2024). When decolonization is hijacked. American Anthropologist, 126(4), 553-566. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28021 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa (2024). The incarcerations. William Collins.
  • Lerche, Jens, Shah, Alpa (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 (pp. 157 - 168). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026
  • Shah, Alpa (2022). Why I write? In a climate against intellectual dissidence. Current Anthropology, 63(5), 570 - 600. https://doi.org/10.1086/722030 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa (2021). What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Democracy by sortition, liberal elections and communist revolutionaries. Development and Change, 52(4), 687-728. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12651 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens (2021). Black Lives Matter, capital and ideology: spiraling out from India. British Journal of Sociology, 72, 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa (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. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12978 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa, 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/TRAN.12401 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens (2018). Conjugated oppression under contemporary capitalism: class relations, social oppression and agrarian change in India. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(5-6), 927-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217 picture_as_pdf
  • Shah, Alpa (2018). Nightmarch: among India's revolutionary guerrillas. Hurst Publishers (London, England).
  • Shah, Alpa, Lerche, Jens, Axelby, Richard, Benbabaali, Dalel, Donegan, Brendan, Jayaseelan, Raj, Vikramditya, Thakur (2017). Ground down by growth: tribe, caste, class and inequality in 21st century India. Pluto Press.
  • Shah, Alpa (2017). Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.1.008
  • Shah, Alpa, Jain, Dhruv (2017). Naxalbari at its Golden Jubilee: Fifty recent books on the Maoist movement in India. Modern Asian Studies, 51(4), 1165-1219. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X16000792
  • Shah, Alpa (2017). Humaneness and contradictions: India’s Maoist-inspired Naxalites. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(21).
  • Ismail, Feyzi, Shah, Alpa (2015). Class struggle, the Maoists and the indigenous question in Nepal and India. Economic and Political Weekly, L(35), 112-123.
  • Corbridge, Stuart, Shah, Alpa (2014). The underbelly of the Indian boom.
  • Bates, Crispin, Shah, Alpa (Eds.) (2014). Savage attack: tribal insurgency in India. Social Science Press.
  • Shah, Alpa (2014). The muck of the past: revolution, social transformation, and the Maoists in India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(2), 337 - 356. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12107
  • Shah, Alpa (2014). Religion and the secular left: subaltern studies, birsa munda and maosits. Anthropology of This Century, 0(9), 0-0. picture_as_pdf
  • Higham, Rob, Shah, Alpa (2013). Conservative force or contradictory resource?: education and affirmative action in Jharkhand, India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 43(6), 718-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2012.746897
  • Shah, Alpa (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), 476-479. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X13506662
  • Lerche, Jens, Shah, Alpa, Harriss-White, Barbara (2013). Introduction: agrarian questions and left politics in India. Journal of Agrarian Change, 13(3), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12031
  • Shah, Alpa (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), 425-450. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12027
  • Shah, Alpa (2013). The anti-politics of 'Declarations of dependence'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19(2), 254-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12029
  • Shah, Alpa (2013). The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: the Maoists in India. Critique of Anthropology, 33(1), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X12466679
  • Shah, Alpa (2013). Why India’s poverty alleviation programmes don’t work.
  • Higham, Rob, Shah, Alpa (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,
  • Corbridge, Stuart, Shah, Alpa (ed.) (2013). Introduction to the special edition: the underbelly of the Indian boom. Economy and Society, 42(3), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.790655
  • Shah, Alpa (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), 480-506. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.783662
  • Shah, Alpa, 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,
  • Shah, Alpa (2012). Eco-incarceration?: 'Walking with the Comrades'. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII(21), 32-34.
  • Shah, Alpa (2012). Éliminer la classe, la caste et l’indigénéité dans l’Inde maoïste. Terrain, (58), 64-81.
  • Shah, Alpa (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.
  • D' Mello, Bernard, Shah, Alpa (2011). Preface. In Vanden, Harry E., Becker, Mark (Eds.), José Carlos Mariátegui: an Anthology . Monthly Review Press.
  • Shah, Alpa, Pettigrew, Judith (2011). Windows into a revolution: ethnographies of maoism in India and Nepal. Social Science Press.
  • Shah, Alpa, Harriss-White, Barbara (2011). Resurrecting scholarship on agrarian studies in India. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI(39), 13-18.
  • Shah, Alpa (2011). Alcoholics Anonymous: the Maoist movement in Jharkhand, India. Modern Asian Studies, 45(05), 1095-1117. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X1000020X
  • Shah, Alpa (2011). India burning: the maoist movement. In Clark-Decès, Isabelle (Ed.), A Companion to the Anthropology of India (pp. 332-352). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Shah, Alpa (2010). In the shadows of the state: indigenous politics, environmentalism, and insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Duke University Press.
  • Shah, Alpa, Pettigrew, Judith (2009). Windows into a revolution: ethnographies of Maoism in South Asia. Dialectical Anthropology, 33(3-4), 225-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-009-9142-5
  • Shah, Alpa (2009). Brick kiln workers from Jharkhand: the labour of love. In Deshingkar, Priya, Farrington, John (Eds.), Circular Migration and Multi Locational Livelihoods Strategies in Rural India (pp. 177-201). Oxford University Press.
  • Shah, Alpa (2009). Morality, corruption and the state: insights from Jharkhand, Eastern India. The Journal of Development Studies, 45(3), 295-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380802600866
  • Shah, Alpa (2009). Corruption: insights into combating corruption in rural development. In Sykes, Karen Margaret (Ed.), Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes of a Global Age (pp. 117-138). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Shah, Alpa (2008). Keeping the state away: democracy, politics and imaginations of the state in India’s Jharkhand. In Skoda, Uwe, Guzy, Lidia (Eds.), Power Plays . Weissensee Verlag.
  • Shah, Alpa (2007). Markets of protection: the maoist communist centre and the state in Jharkhand, India. In Pratten, David, Sen, Atreyee (Eds.), Global Vigilantes (pp. 291-318). Hurst Publishers (London, England).
  • Shah, Alpa (2007). Keeping the state away: democracy, politics and imaginations of the state in India’s Jharkhand. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13(1), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00417.x
  • Shah, Alpa (2006). Introduction: a double-edged sword: protection and state violence. Critique of Anthropology, 26(3), 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X06066574
  • Shah, Alpa (2006). Markets of protection: the 'terrorist' maoist movement and the state in Jharkhand, India. Critique of Anthropology, 26(3), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X06066576
  • Shah, Alpa (2006). The labour of love: seasonal migration from Jharkhand to the brick kilns of other states in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 40(1), 91-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996670504000104
    • Asia Centre
  • Corbridge, Stuart, Shah, Alpa (ed.) (2013). Introduction to the special edition: the underbelly of the Indian boom. Economy and Society, 42(3), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.790655
    • International Development
  • Corbridge, Stuart, Shah, Alpa (ed.) (2013). Introduction to the special edition: the underbelly of the Indian boom. Economy and Society, 42(3), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.790655
    • LSE
  • Shah, Alpa (2019). Survey of caste, occupation and education in five localities in India 2014-2015. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853815
  • Rubins, Karen, Shah, Alpa (2017). Cartoon abstract: Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis.
  • Shah, Alpa (2004). Understanding the state: an anthropological study of rural Jharkhand, India [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Social Policy
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, Duvall, Sandra (2003). Practice, power and meaning: frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects. Journal of International Development, 15(5), 541-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1004
  • Lewis, David, Bebbington, Anthony J., Batterbury, Simon, Shah, Alpa, Olson, Elizabeth, Siddiqi, M. Shameem, 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).