Dr Richard Axelby
BA MA (HULL), PHD (SOAS)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Teaching Fellow
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Senior Teaching Fellow
- Name:
- Dr Richard Axelby
- Email address:
- ra39@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 580
- Office Hours:
- By email appointment
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Research Methods in Anthropology
Research
Between 2002 and 2004 I lived and worked in the Chamba valley in the Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. The doctoral thesis that resulted from this period of fieldwork described the impact of change on the kinds of property regimes that historically characterised the management of natural resources in the region. Specifically it looked at the case of the migratory Gaddi shepherds and attempts by the state to constrain their pattern of movement and restrict their access to forest and grazing land.
Current research interest combines history and anthropology to examine the ways in which environments are viewed and represented and the implications of such understandings for sustainable use and management arrangements.
Publications
Articles
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.
