Faculty

• Ecologies of Labour
• Constitutionalism
• Decolonisation
• Pastoralism
• Literature and Cultural Hegemonies

• Faridi, Afreen. 2025. Intersections of Covid-19 within Nomadic Lives: Nation-State machinations & pastoralism within the Gujjar & Bakkarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir. In: Ranjan, Rahul (ed) Governing the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19 in India. Routledge, Oxon.
• Faridi, Afreen. 2024. ‘The State of the Bakarwal Tribe in Times of Covid Crisis’. In: Mathur, S and Bég, M (ed). Lexington Books, London.
• Faridi, A. (2023, November 21). What Palestine teaches teachers of politics and law. Engenderings (The London School of Economics and Political Science). https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2023/11/21/what-palestine-teaches-teachers-of-politics-and-law/
• Faridi, A. (2023, March 6). Amrit kaal for adivasis? What Union Budget 2023-24 does not say about tribal communities. Down to Earth.
• Faridi, A. (2023, March 7). Amrit kaal for adivasis? Union Budget 2023-24 weakens safety nets for tribals. Down to Earth.
• Faridi, A. (2021). Unravelling the ‘PPP’ Model Affecting Nomadic Pastoralists in Jammu & Kashmir. The Bastion.
• Faridi, A. and Menon, P., (2021). Mapping the Impact of COVID-19 on Himalayan Pastoralists: A Primer. The Bastion.
• Faridi A.G. (2020) Child Labour in a Pastoral Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir: Impact of Spatiality Within a State of Conflict. In: Posso A. (eds) Child Labor in the Developing World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3106-4_9
• Faridi, A., Bhamra, A., & Arora, K. (2017). MAPPING SCOPE OF MGNREGS ON SDGS. New Delhi: Development Alternatives.
• Faridi, A. (2015). Boonyi Tal. In E. Batool, I. Butt, M. Rashid, N. Rather & S. Mushtaq, Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora (1st ed., p. xxi). New Delhi: Zubaan.

• Delivered a Graduate Seminar on “Navigating Accumulation & Dispossession: The Bakarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir” at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, October 2023.
• Delivered a lecture on "Marginality, Gender and Diversity" for the students of Freie Universität, Berlin, January 2023. (Online)
• Delivered a lecture on "Empowering and Securing Futures of Tribal Children: Engendering Child Labour Legislation" at the workshop on Multidimensional Approach to Development of Girl Child on National Girl Child Day, Patna organised by Govt of Bihar and Asian Development Research Institute, Patna. January 2023.
• Delivered a Lecture on "Human Mobility in ‘Modern’ Societies: Struggle, transformation and critique" at The Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Work Futures Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, UK as an international online special event for students and staff. December 2022. (Online)

• “Food Sovereignty of Pastoral Nomads in Western Himalayas: From Subsistence to Dependence”, at the Himalayan Policy Research Consortium Conference, University of Mexico, December 2024.
• “State Building and Food Sovereignity in Pastoral Tribes”, at A Panel Discussion on Tribal Studies: Emerging Themes and Approaches by Doing Sociology, October 2024.
• "Herding the herders: state building and mobility within pastoral tribes of Jammu and Kashmir", at the DSA 2024: Social justice and development in a polarising world, at the SOAS University of London, June 2024.
• Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems Workshop, the Royal Veterinary College, London, April 2024. Presented a Paper on Sovereignty, Political Representation and Pastoralism.
• “Surviving Technologies of Accumulation and Dispossession: Ecological Labour of the Gujjar-Bakarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir”, at the World Anthropology Congress 2023, University of Delhi, October 2023.
• "Locating Metabolic Rifts within Pastoral Tribes: Technologies of Dispossession & Ecological Labour of the Gujjar-Bakarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir", at the British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023, University of Leeds, April 2023.
• “Mitigating the Impact of Covid and Conflict: Empowering & Securing Futures of Children Belonging to Pastoral Communities of Jammu and Kashmir”, at Seventh Annual Research and Orientation Workshop and Conference on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants, November 2022 (International, India).
• “Nation-State machinations & pastoralism within the Gujjar & Bakkarwal Tribe of J&K” at JKLU-OMU (Oslo Metropolitan University) International Workshop, 2022 on “Governing the Crisis: Covid at the Margins in India” at the JK Lakshmipat University from 15th to 16th April, 2022.
• “Navigating Covid and Conflict” at the Indian Pastoralist Network 2021 Webinar Series, October 9th, 2021.
• “Intersections of Conflict & Covid-19 within Nomadic Lives” at the Forest Commons Virtual Conference organised by IASC from September 13th – 17th, 2021.
• “Intersections of Conflict & Covid-19: Impact on Himalayan Pastoral Children” presented at the 11th Annual Conference in Political Economy hosted online by the IIPPE from 12th to 19th September, 2021.
• “Nation-State Machinations and Pastoralism within the Gujjar and Bakkarwal Tribes of Jammu and Kashmir” presented at the Himalayan Studies Conference, Toronto, October 2022 (International, Online).
• “The Violence of Informal Work: Adverse Inclusion of Tribes in a state of Conflict” presented at The 39th International Labour Process Conference hosted online by the Centre for Research in Employment and Work, The University of Greenwich from April 12th to 14th, 2021.
• “Child Labour in a Pastoral Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir: Impact of Spatiality within a State of Conflict” presented at the Workshop on “Understanding Child Labour in Agriculture” by the Australian APEC Study Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne from 8th to 9th April, 2019.
• “Spatiality of Land Ownership and Work Practices: The State and the Marginalised Tribal Societies in Jammu And Kashmir” has been presented at the First International Graduate Student Conference, The PhD Programme in Social Sciences, Birzeit University, Palestine. The Conference was organized on the theme of “Towards Anti-Hegemonic Knowledge Paradigms: Space, Place, Mobility and Power” at the Birzeit University from 9th to 10th May, 2018.
• “Determining the Efficacy of Child Labour Legislation in India: Embedding Values of the State and Markets into the Work Practices of the Bakkarwal Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir” has been presented at the Festival for New Economic Thinking, 2017 organised by the Institute for New Economic Thinking in Edinburgh from 18th to 20th October, 2017.

• Critical Thinking and Storytelling
• Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
• Law, Technology and Society
• Basic of the Indian Constitution and the State
• Communication and Identity
• Critical Thinking for Decisions at Workplace 

• Critical Thinking
• Technology and Society
• Ecology and Policy
• Political Economy

Professional Positions

• Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking, JKLU (2021-2023; Jan 2025-Present) Assistant Professor
• Advisor, Rethinking Economics India, 2019- 2024
• Project Consultant, Development Alternatives
• Research Assistant, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies (2014-2015)

• Special Issue, Ecologies of Labour, The Third World Quarterly, 2024- present.

• Child and Youth Services Journal
• Regional Environmental Change Journal
• Ecologies of Labour Seminar and Conference, Nottingham Trent University
• The Economic and Political Weekly Journal

• Co-organiser and Discussant for Ecologies of Labour- PAHAD Lecture and Book Launch of Atmospheric Violences: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir by Dr Omer Aijazi (University of Manchester), June 2024.
• Co-Organised "Ecologies of Labour- Symposium and Workshop" at the Nottingham Trent University, UK and Chaired a Panel on "Human-Society-Nature Relations". June 2023.
• Organised JKLU-OMU Young Scholar’s Workshop in conjunction with Oslo Metropolitan University on “Governing the Crisis: Covid at the Margins in India” at JK Lakshmipat University. April 2022. (Hybrid)
• Chaired Review and Summary during the International Conference on "Sustainable Future: Innovations in Education" JKLU, Jaipur, February 25-26, 2022
• Organised Reading Group on Class and Caste with Dr Sheetal Chhabria (Department of History, Connecticut College) for students of South Asia. January 2022. (Online)
• Organised Rethinking Economics (International) Digital Festival: An Exploration of our Economic Futures. Also hosted Sessions on Political & Economic Impact of Covid-19. 2021. (Online)

• Peoples of Himalaya Academic Discourses Network.
• Ecologies of Labour Network
• Diversifying and Decolonising Economics.
• Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
• The Development Studies Association
• Indian Society of Labour Economists
• British Association for South Asian Studies