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연구실 :5동 420호
전화 : 02-880-4049
이메일 : jtmartelli@snu.ac.kr
전공: 남아시아 연구 / South Asian Studies
Education
Ph.D. King’s India Institute, King’s College London
Statement
My interdisciplinary work in political science and area studies is concerned with democratic representation in South Asia. I research populist discourses, youth activism, political professionalisation, digital media, and practices of the self in contemporary India. A more thorough overview of my research foci is accessible here: https://jtmartelli.com/.
During my doctoral and postdoctoral years, I developed a strong expertise in combining computational and field-centric approaches. I build on this experience to research everyday political labor such as populist speech-making, media outreach, digital campaigning, and political brokerage. In addition to learning advanced methods of text analysis, data mining, and natural language processing, I specialize in corpus design, extraction, and compilation. In my ongoing project, titled “The Languages of Democratic Decline in India,” I explore the effects of the populist rhetoric and visuals on democracy when it transitions to authoritarianism. As opposed to policymaking, narratives flaunted by politicians, media, and opinion-makers are often believed to be innocuous. Yet they shape citizens’ behaviors, manifest power relations, and construct the realities we live in
Prior to joining Seoul National University, I was an OSUN postdoctoral fellow at the European Central University’s Democracy Institute in Budapest (2024–25) as well as a non-resident research fellow at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris (2023–25). My prior appointments include a visiting scholarship at the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University (2022–23) and a research fellowship at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) at Leiden University (2022-23). Prior to my tenure at Stanford, I co-headed the Politics and Society research division at the French research unit in India, the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH, UMIFRE 20 MEAE-CNRS) in New Delhi—2018–22. My dissertation, an ethnographic and archival study of student politics, questioned its contemporary significance in a rapidly declining Indian democracy.
Publications
■ Peer-reviewed articles
| 2023 | “The Sound, the Fury and the Silences: The Politics of Influence in Digital India,” introduction to the guest edited special section of Global Politics, 14(5): 880–886 (with Aasim Khan and Ralph Schroeder), 2023, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13308. |
| 2023 | “Populist Careers as Autonomy-making: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Political Entry in North India,” Polity, 55(4):784-811, DOI: 10.1086/726339. |
| 2023 | “Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence from India,” Political Psychology 44(5):1141–60, DOI: 10.1111/pops.12881 (with Christophe Jaffrelot). |
| 2023 | “Populism à la Carte: The paradoxical political communication of Narendra Modi on Twitter,” Global Policy, 14(5):899-911, 2023, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13173 (with Vihang Jumle). |
| 2022 | “Chat-Hi: Exploring Indian National Identity Through Machine-Generated Text,” Leonardo 55(1):1-20, DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02141 (with Salil Parekh). |
| 2021 | “The Politics of our Selves: Left Self-fashioning and the Production of Representative Claims in Everyday Indian Campus Politics,” Modern Asian Studies 55(6):1972-45, DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X2000013X. |
| 2021 | “Les campus comme bastion d’opposition contre la communalisation de l’Inde : deux cas d’étude à New Delhi,” Sociétés contemporaines 121(1):171-183, DOI: 10.3917/soco.121.0171 (with Kristina Garalytė and the collective individual Camille Noûs). |
| 2020 | “Can the Popular Disembody Populism? Students and the Reappropriation of the Nationalist Floating Signifier in Contemporary Indian Politics,” Studies in Indian Politics 9(1):7-20, DOI: 10.1177/2321023021999140. |
| 2020 | “Populaire contre Populisme. Les dharnas étudiantes comme force d’opposition en Inde,” Mouvements 3, Essay section: 1-21, DOI: 10.3917/mouv.103.0091. |
| 2019 | “Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia,” Introduction to the guest edited special issue of SAMAJ: Student Politics in South Asia 22(4):1-45, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6486 (with Kristina Garalytė). |
| 2019 | “The Spillovers of Competition: Value-based Activism and the Democratization of Dissent in an Indian Campus,” SAMAJ 22(4):1-40, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6501. |
| 2019 | “How Campuses Mediate a Nationwide Upsurge against India’s Communalization. An Account from Jamia Millia Islamia and Shaheen Bagh in New Delhi,” Postscript of the special issue SAMAJ, Student Politics in South Asia 22(4):1-10, DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6516 (with Kristina Garalytė). |
| 2018 | “From one Participant Cohort to the Other: Surveying Political Incubation in an Indian University,” India Review 17(3):263-300, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2018.1473319 (with Barış Arı). |
| 2018 | “Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent: A Study on Student Politics in JNU,” Economic and Political Weekly 53, Issue 11:3597-06 (with Khaliq Parkar). |
| 2016 | “Historicising Student Activism and their Discourses: A Textometric Analysis,” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data-JADT: 311-323, 7–10 June 2016, Nice. ISBN:978-2-7466-9067-7. |
■ Collections edited
| 2023 | Digital Politics in India: A Global Perspective, special section of Global Policy 14(5), 2023 (with Aasim Khan and Ralph Schroeder). |
| 2019 | “Student Politics in South Asia,” special issue of SAMAJ 22(4), DOI: 10.4000/samaj.5852 (with Kristina Garalytė). |
■ Book chapters
| 2024 | “On the Meaning of Student Elections: The case of an Indian Campus,” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education, edited by Manja Klemenčič, pp.241-26, London: Bloomsbury, 2024. |
■ Book reviews
| June 2023 | “Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas,” Book review, Books & Ideas / La Vie des Idées, 5 June 2023. |
| January 2019 | “Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World,” Book review, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 27(1):137-138, 30 January, DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2019.1573885. |
Service
Associate Editor, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ): https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/156
Courses
- Tradition and Modernity in India
- Topics in Indian Philosophy
- Readings in Political Theory: Jacques Rancière
