Writing & Talks

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.

Selected Talks & Presentations

• 2026 (upcoming): “Palimpsests of the Ocular: Adivasi (Indigenous) Media Sovereignty at the Nexus of Transnational Media Networks in India.” SCMS, Montreal.
• 2026 (upcoming): “Reclaiming the Ocular: Adivasi Cinema, Global Indigenous Media Sovereignty, and the Struggle for Visual Self-Determination in Jharkhand, India.” AAS Annual Conference, Vancouver.
• 2025: “Naachi Se Baanchi: Decolonial Cinema and Indigenous Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary India.” 28th ECSAS.
• 2025: “Screening the Adivasis (Indigenous): Disassembling Visions and Voices of Indigenous Media Production in India.” Visible Evidence XXXI, Philadelphia.
• 2026: “Reclaiming the Ocular: Adivasi Cinema and Transnational Indigenous Media Networks in South Asia’s Decolonial Mediascapes.” Global Asia Conference, UC Irvine.
• 2026: Roundtable Leader, USC Writing Symposium, University of Southern California.
• 2024: Discussant, “Merging Horizons: Visual Anthropology, Indigenous Communities, and the Work of Online Media Archives.” Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), London.
• 2022: “Reimagining Gaze: Politics of Community Media and Film Making in India.” Arts in Society Conference, Spain.
• 2020: Panel Chair, Making the Subject: Interdisciplinary Explorations. School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.
• 2018: “Remembering through Film (Making).” The Image Conference, Hong Kong.
• 2018: “On Becoming Ho: Not (just) a Film.” Deleuze India Conference, Chennai.
• 2016: “Hum, Tum, and Transformation.” Transformative Rural Development Conference, India International Centre, New Delhi.

Conference Organizing

• Conference Organizer, Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on South Asia, Center for India and South Asia (CISA), UCLA — 2025.
• Conference Organizer, Critical Media Conference of the Americas (CMLCA) — 2021.