Simona Vittorini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simona Vittorini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simona |
| FAMILY NAME | Vittorini |
| SIGNATURE | VITTORINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9035-2514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Afterword: Modi’s symbolic state
Integral to Narendra Modi’s approach to governing is the management of images and public emotions through the organisation of studiously choreographed and mass-mediated spectacles. Symbols embody affective appeals that activate attachments and identities that rational appeals cannot easily reach. The symbolic interventions of the Modi administration attempt to narrate and visualise an alternative version of the Indian nation, working across multi…
Neo-colonialist, perennial underdog, or smart influencer: India in The Gambia and Ghana
Yes
III. From performance to mastery: Rethinking diverse writing assessments across disciplines
Diversifying assessments to include forms of communication beyond the academic essay is thought to provide students with more ways of demonstrating their knowledge, leading to improved student outcomes. This essay explores the underlying assumptions of this premise, with reference to the adoption of a policy brief assignment in an environmental policy module. Far from being less demanding than an essay, assessments such as presentations, policy b…
I. facing resistance: The challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices
The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities for innovation but also brought colossal disruptions. Engaging students online was one of the most pressing challenges, a problem that persists post-pandemic with the return to on-campus teaching and is now exacerbated by the phenomenal rise of generative artificial inte…
IV. Arrested feedback loops: Student experience and teachers’ evaluation
Student-centred approaches to teaching and learning are premised on a feedback loop moving between learning objectives, student experience, and student performance. The latter is relied upon in the evaluation of the achievement of the learning objectives through concrete measurable outcomes. Each step in this loop is critical for ensuring that pedagogic practice successfully aligns learning objectives with the needs and abilities of a specific bo…
Symposium introduction: Pedagogical reflection across distance and disciplines through dialogical notebooks
In this Commentary Symposium, four authors from diverse fields and geographic locations collaboratively explore problems of pedagogical practice through the medium of a dialogical notebook, a form of collaborative writing. From teaching innovation to classroom participation, to questions of assessment and finally, evaluation of teaching, the papers in this collection question underlying assumptions and reflect on the complexities of different tea…
II. Engagement and education in emergencies: Considering context and student choice in student participation
For those who teach in classrooms facing emergencies, the question remains how to make an engaging, responsive space in the midst of such challenges. But student participation and engagement extend far beyond education in emergencies, embracing students facing risk and stress in everyday life. Within the classroom, participation is often seen as a marker of student learning. However, the student context must be taken into account when it comes to…
Modi à la mode: Narendra Modi’s fashion and the performance of populist leadership
Examining the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performative approach to politics, this study offers an interpretation of populism as a style of governing. Central to this style is the visual appearance of the populist leader, heavily coded by their manner of dressing. The article offers an analysis of the ways in which the Indian Prime Minister uses fashion and clothes to articulate three fundamental features of populist leadership: the appe…
India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa
Unpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa. Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial …
Modi and the Mahatma: The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation1 of India–Africa Relations
Taking ‘development cooperation’ and South–South discourse seriously: Indian claims and Ghanaian responses
Indian interaction with the global South is at a crossroads. For a long time wedded to Nehruvian values of South–South cooperation, there are now considerable claims that economics underpins relations. This article looks at the current Indian ‘development cooperation’ in Ghana and, crucially, also asks what form Ghanaian responses take. The article concludes that while the rhetoric and ideas behind South–South cooperation are toned down, it is no…
Indian foreign policy: Ambition and transition
Two bullocks, a ladder and a lamp: Electoral symbols in Nehruvian India
There is a substantial body of literature on nation‐building that, from a variety of theoretical approaches, examines the role of symbolic constructs in the process of construction and consolidation of new nation‐states. Among these works, the dramatic and symbolic aspects of election and their function in the nation‐building project have been investigated by political scientists and anthropologists alike. However, analysis of electoral emblems a…
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism by Srirupa Roy
Modi à la mode: Narendra Modi’s fashion and the performance of populist leadership
Examining the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performative approach to politics, this study offers an interpretation of populism as a style of governing. Central to this style is the visual appearance of the populist leader, heavily coded by their manner of dressing. The article offers an analysis of the ways in which the Indian Prime Minister uses fashion and clothes to articulate three fundamental features of populist leadership: the appe…
Taking ‘development cooperation’ and South–South discourse seriously: Indian claims and Ghanaian responses
Indian interaction with the global South is at a crossroads. For a long time wedded to Nehruvian values of South–South cooperation, there are now considerable claims that economics underpins relations. This article looks at the current Indian ‘development cooperation’ in Ghana and, crucially, also asks what form Ghanaian responses take. The article concludes that while the rhetoric and ideas behind South–South cooperation are toned down, it is no…
Two bullocks, a ladder and a lamp: Electoral symbols in Nehruvian India
There is a substantial body of literature on nation‐building that, from a variety of theoretical approaches, examines the role of symbolic constructs in the process of construction and consolidation of new nation‐states. Among these works, the dramatic and symbolic aspects of election and their function in the nation‐building project have been investigated by political scientists and anthropologists alike. However, analysis of electoral emblems a…
I. facing resistance: The challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices
The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities for innovation but also brought colossal disruptions. Engaging students online was one of the most pressing challenges, a problem that persists post-pandemic with the return to on-campus teaching and is now exacerbated by the phenomenal rise of generative artificial inte…
IV. Arrested feedback loops: Student experience and teachers’ evaluation
Student-centred approaches to teaching and learning are premised on a feedback loop moving between learning objectives, student experience, and student performance. The latter is relied upon in the evaluation of the achievement of the learning objectives through concrete measurable outcomes. Each step in this loop is critical for ensuring that pedagogic practice successfully aligns learning objectives with the needs and abilities of a specific bo…
II. Engagement and education in emergencies: Considering context and student choice in student participation
For those who teach in classrooms facing emergencies, the question remains how to make an engaging, responsive space in the midst of such challenges. But student participation and engagement extend far beyond education in emergencies, embracing students facing risk and stress in everyday life. Within the classroom, participation is often seen as a marker of student learning. However, the student context must be taken into account when it comes to…
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism by Srirupa Roy
Two bullocks, a ladder and a lamp: Electoral symbols in Nehruvian India
There is a substantial body of literature on nation‐building that, from a variety of theoretical approaches, examines the role of symbolic constructs in the process of construction and consolidation of new nation‐states. Among these works, the dramatic and symbolic aspects of election and their function in the nation‐building project have been investigated by political scientists and anthropologists alike. However, analysis of electoral emblems a…
Indian foreign policy: Ambition and transition
Taking ‘development cooperation’ and South–South discourse seriously: Indian claims and Ghanaian responses
Indian interaction with the global South is at a crossroads. For a long time wedded to Nehruvian values of South–South cooperation, there are now considerable claims that economics underpins relations. This article looks at the current Indian ‘development cooperation’ in Ghana and, crucially, also asks what form Ghanaian responses take. The article concludes that while the rhetoric and ideas behind South–South cooperation are toned down, it is no…
India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa
Unpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa. Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial …
Modi and the Mahatma: The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation1 of India–Africa Relations
Modi à la mode: Narendra Modi’s fashion and the performance of populist leadership
Examining the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performative approach to politics, this study offers an interpretation of populism as a style of governing. Central to this style is the visual appearance of the populist leader, heavily coded by their manner of dressing. The article offers an analysis of the ways in which the Indian Prime Minister uses fashion and clothes to articulate three fundamental features of populist leadership: the appe…
Neo-colonialist, perennial underdog, or smart influencer: India in The Gambia and Ghana
Yes
III. From performance to mastery: Rethinking diverse writing assessments across disciplines
Diversifying assessments to include forms of communication beyond the academic essay is thought to provide students with more ways of demonstrating their knowledge, leading to improved student outcomes. This essay explores the underlying assumptions of this premise, with reference to the adoption of a policy brief assignment in an environmental policy module. Far from being less demanding than an essay, assessments such as presentations, policy b…
I. facing resistance: The challenges of embracing new pedagogical practices
The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic The sudden shift to online learning and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic provided opportunities for innovation but also brought colossal disruptions. Engaging students online was one of the most pressing challenges, a problem that persists post-pandemic with the return to on-campus teaching and is now exacerbated by the phenomenal rise of generative artificial inte…
IV. Arrested feedback loops: Student experience and teachers’ evaluation
Student-centred approaches to teaching and learning are premised on a feedback loop moving between learning objectives, student experience, and student performance. The latter is relied upon in the evaluation of the achievement of the learning objectives through concrete measurable outcomes. Each step in this loop is critical for ensuring that pedagogic practice successfully aligns learning objectives with the needs and abilities of a specific bo…
Symposium introduction: Pedagogical reflection across distance and disciplines through dialogical notebooks
In this Commentary Symposium, four authors from diverse fields and geographic locations collaboratively explore problems of pedagogical practice through the medium of a dialogical notebook, a form of collaborative writing. From teaching innovation to classroom participation, to questions of assessment and finally, evaluation of teaching, the papers in this collection question underlying assumptions and reflect on the complexities of different tea…
II. Engagement and education in emergencies: Considering context and student choice in student participation
For those who teach in classrooms facing emergencies, the question remains how to make an engaging, responsive space in the midst of such challenges. But student participation and engagement extend far beyond education in emergencies, embracing students facing risk and stress in everyday life. Within the classroom, participation is often seen as a marker of student learning. However, the student context must be taken into account when it comes to…
Afterword: Modi’s symbolic state
Integral to Narendra Modi’s approach to governing is the management of images and public emotions through the organisation of studiously choreographed and mass-mediated spectacles. Symbols embody affective appeals that activate attachments and identities that rational appeals cannot easily reach. The symbolic interventions of the Modi administration attempt to narrate and visualise an alternative version of the Indian nation, working across multi…
Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)