Elena Valdameri
Books
Bodies beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia, ed. with Kate Imy, Teresa Segura Garcia and Erica Wald, Leiden University Press (forthcoming 2024).
Indian Liberalism between Nation and Empire: The Political Life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale (Routledge 2022), Book Reviews: Maurizio Griffo, in: DownloadKervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies (2022), (PDF, 83 KB)vertical_align_bottom Dinyar Patel, in: external pageH-Soz-Kult,(21.12.2022)call_made, Massimiliano Vaghi: in Nuova Rivista Storica (Vol. CVII; n. II, 2023), and Mangesh Kulkarni, in: The Rivista Italiana di Storia Internazionale (1/2023).
Peer-Reviewed Chapters, Articles in Journals and Anthologies
“Introduction”, with K. Imy, T. Segura Garcia and E. Wald, in Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia (ed. by idem), Leiden University Press (forthcoming 2024).
“Purdah, national degeneration, and pelvic politics: women’s physical exercise in colonial India (ca 1900–1947)” in Bodies Beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia (ed. by E. Valdameri, K. Imy, T. Segura Garcia and E. Wald), Leiden University Press (forthcoming 2024).
"Training Female Bodies for New India: Women’s Physical Education between Global Trends and Local Politics in Colonial South Asia, c. 1900–1939", in The International Journal of the History of Sport, published online: 2 November 2022. external pagehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2022.2134349.call_made
“Debates on Citizenship in Colonial South Asia and Global Political Thought (c. 1880–1950)” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia, ed. by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke (Routledge, 2022), pp. 450–462.
“Gopal Krishna Gokhale: Nazione e Impero tra ‘Oriente’ e ‘Occidente’”, in Marzia Casolari, Claudia Tresso (eds.), Sguardi sull'Asia. Scritti in onore di Michelguglielmo Torri, I Libri di Emil, Bologna 2017, pp. 101-127.
“Indonesia 2017: Towards Illiberal Democracy?” Asia Maior 2017, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 165-190.
“Indonesia 2016: A Difficult Equilibrium amid Global Anxiety”, Asia Maior 2016, Vol. XXVII, pp. 167-197.
“La Tentazione dell’Hindutva. Fondamentalismo indù e intolleranza in India”, MicroMega 8/2016, pp. 119-126.
“Indonesia in 2015: The People’s President’s First Year”, Asia Maior 2015, Vol. XXVI, pp. 157-195.
“The Influence of Liberalism in the Definition of the Idea of the Nation in India”, La Révolution française [online], 8 (2015), published online on the 24 July 2015.
“'The Man on Earth I Should Dread as an Enemy'. The Administration of Thomas Saunders during the War in the Deccan (1750-55)”, Società e storia, n. 135, 2012, pp. 5-40.
Reviews
Book Review: Marc Jason Gilbert, South Asia in World History, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017, in: H-Soz-Kult, 28.08.2018
Book Review: Giulio Abbate, Un dispotismo illuminato e paterno: riforme e codificazione nell'India britannica, 1772-1883, (Giuffrè, 2015), in Ricerche di Storia Politica, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2017).
Contributions to Public Debates
“New(s) waves by women”, discussion on the documentary film Writing with Fire screened at the Zurich Human Rights Film Festival, 4 December 2021.
“India. La pandemia tra disuguaglianze, nazionalismo e elezioni”, Interview for Confronti. Religioni, Politica e Società, 22 May 2021 (external pagehttps://confronti.net/2021/05/india-la-pandemia-tra-disuguaglianze-nazionalismo-e-elezioni/call_made)
“Covid in India: fuori controllo?”, Round table discussion organised by The World This Week, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 29 Apr. 2021 (external pagehttps://www.ispionline.it/it/pubblicazione/world-week-i-dibattiti-dellispi-formato-podcast-29669call_made)
“The Sino-Indian border dispute: has India a usable past?” commentary for Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 15 Nov. 2020.
“L’elefante e il dragone”, interview for Nessun Luogo è Lontano, Radio 24, 12 Jun. 2020.
“La protesta dei contadini in India”, interview for Nessun Luogo è Lontano, Radio 24, 3 Dec. 2020.
“Fragile India ai tempi del Covid-19”, interview for Popoli e Missione, Jun. 2020.
“L’India, il blocco, il Kashmir e l’Assam”, interview for Nessun Luogo è Lontano, Radio 24, 6 Apr. 2020.
“Radical Islam is Gaining Ground in Indonesia”, The Wire, 7 June 2017.
“Gopal Krishna Gokhale: The Neglected Liberal”, The Wire, 9 May 2016.
“Attentati a Jakarta e influenza saudita in Indonesia”, interview for L’Ora di Cindia, Radio Radicale, 16 Jan. 2016.
International Conferences and Research Activities
Bodies beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia, ca 1850s–1960s, ETH-Zurich 15–17 June 2022, Zurich (co-organised with Teresa Segura-Garcia, Kate Imy and Erica Wald)
Organized Panels
“Riches and belonging: Global diasporas in the 20th century” with Martin Dusinberre, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Mark Frost and Dario Willi for the Fünfte Schweizerische Geschichtstage, 7 June 2019, Zürich.
“Crafting citizens before and beyond the nation: politics of citizenship in late colonial India 1880-1940” with Harald Fischer-Tiné, Mark Frost and Swapna Banerjee for the Annual Conference on South Asia, 12 October 2018, Madison.
“Alternatives to the British colonial order: Some reflections on the French presence in 18th and 19th century colonial India” with Massimiliano Vaghi, Parimala Rao, and Gopal Gobalakichenane, for the 6th French Network for Asian Studies International Conference, 26 June 2017, Paris.
Papers and Talks (selected)
“Making women fit: physical education and citizenship crafting amidst fears of racial degeneracy in colonial India (c. 1900–1939)”, Crises and gender inequalities in the past and the present: Contributions to Planetary Wellbeing from the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 6 October 2022, Barcelona.
“Corporeal modernity and citizen-crafting in the context of imperialism and nation-building: women’s physical education in colonial India (ca 1910-1940)”, Current Issues in Imperial History, Università Statale di Milano, 27 September 2022, Milan.
“Shaping bodies, making citizens: women’s physical education and the YWCA in colonial India (c. 1910 -1947)”, Dexterities and Edifices of Belonging. Perspectives on Modern South Asia, Opening Symposium of Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, 19 September 2022, Delhi.
“Femininity, (para)eugenics, and pelvic politics: female physical education in colonial India (ca 1900–1947)”, Bodies beyond Binaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Asia (1850s – 1960s), ETH-Zurich, 15 June 2022, Zurich.
“Gokhale, liberalism and citizenship”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, 24 August 2021, Delhi.
“The poor, the rich, and the citizen: shift in discourses of citizenship in 20th century India”, Fünfte Schweizerische Geschichtstage, 7 June 2019, Zürich.
“Physical Education and Femininity in India (1900s – 1950s): Global Trends and Local Politics towards Crafting Women Citizens”, Women’s Studies Centre, Savitribai Phule University, 14 March 2019, Pune.
Peer-Review Activities
Social History of Medicine (2023), India Review (2023), Gender and History (2022), Entremons Journal of World History (2022), Routledge Studies in South Asian History (2022), Rivista Italiana di Storia Internazionale (2022), Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie (2022), Storia delle Donne (2021), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2021), Asia Maior (2021, 2020, 2019), Società e Storia (2020).