Assistant Professor
B.Sc (Zoology): Saurashtra University, Gujarat, 1994
M.Sc (Wildlife Sciences): Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, 2001
M.Sc (Anthropology): University College London, 2009
Ph.D (Anthropology): National University of Singapore, 2015
Email: a.ambika@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interests: Biodiversity conservation, human-animal relations, natural resources management, indigenous people and livelihoods, conservation and development.
Research Publications
Reviews:
Aiyadurai, Ambika, “[Review of the book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by R. Govindrajan]”, Conservation & Society, DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_19_138, 2020.
Aiyadurai, Ambika, “[Review of the book Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China, by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu and Peter van der Veer]”, Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 230-233, Nov. 2019.
Aiyadurai, Ambika, “[Caste and nature: Dalits and Indian environmental politics by Mukul Sharma]”, Seminar, 704 (April): 66-68, 2018.
Book chapters:
Aiyadurai, Ambika, “Hunting in Northeast India and the challenges of implementing the wildlife protection act”, in Nature conservation in the new economy: people, wildlife and the law in India, New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, pp. 31-54, 2019, ISBN: 9789352876136.
Aiyadurai, Ambika and Velho, N., “The last hunters of Arunachal Pradesh: the past and present of wildlife hunting in North-east India”, in Conservation from the margins, Orient BlackSwan, June 2018, ISBN: 9789352872824.
Aiyadurai, A. Idu Mishmis’ Social Worlds: Animals, Humans and Spirits IN Change and continuity among tribes: The Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh. T. Mene and S. Chaudhuri (eds). Mittal Publications.
Journal papers:
Aiyadurai, A and Banerjee, S (2019). Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity: a case study of two bird species from Northeast India. GeoJournal, 112. DOI 10.1007/s10708-019-09999
Aiyadurai, A. 2018. Human-Animal relations: A view from the Mishmi hills. Seminar, #702, February issue:1-8.
Aiyadurai, Ambika, “The multiple meanings of nature conservation: insights from Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 53, no. 39, pp. 37-44, Sep. 2018.
Papers presented at conference:
Aiyadurai, Ambika, ‘Multiple Ontologies of Wildlife Conservation in India’ presented at British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS), 3-5 April 2019, Durham University, UK.
Aiyadurai, Ambika, ‘Hunting in Northeast India and the challenges of implementing Wildlife Protection Act’. Department of Biological Sciences, Ahmedabad University, 5 March 2019.
Aiyadurai, Ambika, ‘Can tigers be our brothers?: Changing human-animal relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India’. Presented at ‘Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal persons beyond the Human’, Duke Global Asia Initiative and Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, US, Oct. 5, 2018.
Aiyadurai, Ambika Li, Yunxia and Banerjee, S., ‘Wildlife conservation and the role of local communities: perspectives from India and China’, in the Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor: Process Geographies in the Making of Modern Asia, Yunnan Minzu University, China, Apr. 17-19, 2018.
Aiyadurai, A, ‘Why there is a rise in Birdwatching in India’. Presented at AAS-in-Asia, Ashoka University and Association for Asian Studies, New Delhi, 5-8 July, 2018.
