School of Social and Political Science

Background

My work focuses on the exchanges between photography, digital media platforms and resistance, with a focus on online image circulation and collaborative image practices. The aim of my doctoral thesis titled ‘The Politics of Media Circulation: Tracing the Distribution of Digital Photographs of and From Kashmir’ was to study the circulation of photographs from Kashmir across online and offline spaces. Focusing on a range of photographic practices within the region, I explored the affordances of new media in relation to photographic circulation, and the state attempts at regulating it. My thesis argues that journalistic and documentary photographs of Kashmir intervene politically in the public sphere through online circulation. 

Supervisors: Dr Lotte Hoek and Prof Toby Kelly

Bio

I obtained my PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2023. I have a Master in Asian Studies from Leiden University (2017), and a Bachelor in Oriental and African Languages and Cultures from 'L'Orientale' University of Naples (2015). I have experience with undergraduate teaching in social anthropology (University of Edinburgh), visual and digital anthropology (UCL), and digital humanities (King's College London). During my PhD, I was also part of the editorial team for The South Asianist Journal, hosted by the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh.