Writing

Overview

My writing moves between peer-reviewed scholarship, book chapters, and shorter digital and multimedia pieces, alongside editorial work for academic journals and edited volumes. Across all of it, I’m working through the same questions that anchor my research: how Indigenous media collectives represent themselves, and what that means for archives, pedagogy, and critical theory.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Gaind, A. (2020). “Becoming through Film (Making): Politics of Contingency and Re-Presentation.” Journal of Practical Philosophy, 1(1): 106–118.

Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

• Gaind, A. (Forthcoming, Winter 2026). “Cameras as Drums, Dance as Maps: Decolonial Visions in Adivasi Media Production in Jharkhand.” In Reimagining Work, Workers and Workplaces: Decolonial and Intersectional Contestations (Vol. 1), eds. M. Banday, A. Dixit, and M. Amacker. Palgrave Macmillan. (forthcoming — no public link yet)
• Gaind, A. (Forthcoming, Winter 2026). “Can the Adivasi Create? The ‘Subject’ of Adivasi Media Production.” In A Media Anthropology of India, eds. P. Raghunath and H. Narasimhan. Routledge. (forthcoming — no public link yet)
• Gaind, A. (2022). “Politics of Representation: Locating Marginalization of Tribals through Film (making).” In Understanding Socio-Economic Marginalization and Tribal Issues, ed. Mohinder Slariya, 163–179. Mittal Publications.

Digital & Multimedia Publications

• “Adivasi Visual Sovereignty and the Digital Mediascape,” Portfolio Exhibit (2022)
• “Politics of Other(ing): ‘Remembering’ and ‘Forgetting’ the Indigenous,” Blog Post, Critical Theory and Information Studies (2022)
• “On Becoming Ho: Remembering, Repeating and Working Through,” NEWSREACH, vol. 18, no. 1 (2018): 23–28.

Editorial Work

• 2026 — Lead Editor, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, vol. 57. UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
• 2026 — Editorial Assistant, The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance. Eds. Anurima Banerji and Prarthana Purkayastha. Oxford University Press.
• 2024 — Editorial Assistant, “Race and Yoga: A Grassroots and Feminist Publication.” Tria Blu Wakpa. Race and Yoga 8, no. 1.
• 2023–24 — Editorial Board Member, Comitatus, Vol. 54 | Vol. 55.
• 2018–2021 — Editorial Assistant, Book Project, Jugalbandi: BJP before Modi, Vinay Sitapati.