Selected publications

Article

Aisher, Alexander (2020) Fieldwork’s return: troubled steps towards a multispecies imaginary. Material Religion, 16 (4). pp. 491-509. ISSN 1743-2200

Aisher, Alexander (2019) Extending perspectivism to India’s “Last Wild Place”: hunting, conservation, and wildlife, and its flourishing and decline, in the Eastern Himalayas. Environmental History, 24 (4). pp. 665-735. ISSN 1053-4180

Gänger, Stefanie, Bollig, Michael, LeCain, Timothy James, Lane, Paul J, Córdoba, Lorena, Pettier, Jean-Baptiste, Widlok, Thomas and Aisher, Alexander (2019) Forum: commodifying the “Wild”: anxiety, ecology and authenticity in the late modern era. Environmental History, 24 (4). pp. 665-735. ISSN 1053-4180

Aisher, Alex and Damodaran, Vinita (2016) Introduction: human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens. Conservation and Society, 14 (4). pp. 293-304. ISSN 0972-4923

Aisher, Alex (2016) Scarcity, alterity and value: decline of the pangolin, the world’s most trafficked mammal. Conservation and Society, 14 (4). pp. 317-329. ISSN 0972-4923

Aisher, Alex (2016) Borders in the forest: productive enclosure and ecological refuge in the Eastern Himalayas. Journal of Contemporary Religion. ISSN 1353-7903 (Accepted)

Aisher, Alex and Cow, Peter (2016) Permaculture and indigenous knowledge. Permaculture, 89. pp. 63-66.

Aisher, Alexander (2007) Voices of uncertainty: spirits, humans and forests in upland Arunachal Pradesh, India. Journal of South Asian Studies, 30 (3). pp. 479-498. ISSN 0085-6401

Book Section

Aisher, Alexander (2022) How a storm feels: storying climate change in the Eastern Himalayas. In: Hoffman, Susanna M, Eriksen, Thomas Hylland and Mendes, Paulo (eds.) Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change. Berghahn Books, pp. 49-64. ISBN 9781800734173

Aisher, Alexander (2012) Coevolving with the landscape? Migration narratives and the environmental history of the Nyishi tribe in Upland Arunachal Pradesh. In: Huber, Toni and Blackburn, Stuart (eds.) Origins and migrations in the extended eastern Himalayas. Tribal Cultures in the Eastern Himalayas . Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004226913

Edited Special Journal Issue

Aisher, Alex and Damodaran, Vinita, eds. (2016) Human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens. Conservation and Society, 14 (4). ISSN 0972-4923

Conference or Workshop Item

Aisher, Alex (2016) Emotion, theory and time: mutual inflections of the human and more-than-human in India's 'last truly wild place'. In: Wild or domesticated: Uncanny in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind, 20-22 Sept 2016, House of Science and Letters, Helsinki.

Aisher, Alex (2016) Extending perspectivism to India's 'last wild place': the ontology of wildlife and its flourishing and decline in the Eastern Himalayas. In: Commoditizing the “Wild”: Natural Resource Commodity Chains and Discourses about their Ecological Consequences (18th to 21st Centuries), May 2, 2016, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Apostelnkloster 13-15, 50672 Cologne.

Aisher, Alex (2016) Waiting for the season-birds: climate change in the Eastern Himalayas through a multispecies lens. In: Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change 2016, 27-29 May 2016, The British Museum.

Aisher, Alex (2015) (Anti-)fragile lives: enhancing adaptation through storytelling in the Eastern Himalayas. In: International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters, April 17-18, 2015, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra.

Thesis

Aisher, Alex (2006) Through 'spirits’: cosmology and landscape ecology among the Nyishi tribe of upland Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University College London.