Emanuela Mangiarotti is lecturer of History of India and Southeast Asia at the University of Pavia. Her research focuses on Indian politics and society, gender and conflicts and ethnopolitical conflicts. She obtained her PhD in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent (Brussels School of International Studies). Her most recent publications include “Looking through and beyond conflicts: communal violence and the social order in Hyderabad (India)” for the International Journal of Conflict and Violence (2019) and a forthcoming contribution for the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research Embodying Transformations: Feminism, the Yoga Body, and Social Change.