Sarah Melsens

academic researcher

CNRS - EHESS

Centre d'Etudes Sud-Asiatiques et Himalayennes, CESAH (CNRS-EHESS)

labour history construction photography oral history colonial history British India 19th-20th Century

Melsens Sarah, “(De)constructing gender? Women laborers and building site photography in western India, 1850-1990” in Construction Matters: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Construction History, ETH Zurich, 2024, p1093-1100. https://doi.org/10.3218/4166-8 Melsens, Sarah, Inge Bertels, and Amit Srivastava. "Intermingled Interests: Social Housing, Speculative Building, and Architectural Practice in 1970s and 1980s Pune (India)." ABE Journal. Architecture beyond Europe 20 (2022). Melsens, Sarah, Inge Bertels, and Amit Srivastava. "The Architectural Production of India’s Everyday Modernism: Middle-class Housing in Pune,(1960-1980)." ABE Journal. Architecture beyond Europe 16 (2019). Melsens Sarah, Chetan Sahasrabudhe, 2022, “TECHNICAL WRITINGS AS POLITICAL: BUILDING MANUALS AND PATTERN BOOKS FROM BRITISH INDIA (1880-1947)”, Timber and construction : the proceedings of the ninth conference of the Construction History Society (CHS), 1-3 April, 2022, Cambridge, UK- (Cambridge: CHS), p. 343-357. Melsens, S, Bertels, I & Srivastava A, 2019, INDIA’S ARCHITECTS ACT, 1972. THE TRIUMPH OF IDENTITY WORK?, in Water, Doors and Buildings : Studies in the History of Construction: the Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the Construction History Society, 5-7 April 2019, Cambridge, U.K., Campbell, James W.P. [edit.]- (Cambridge: CHS) p. 577-590.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Global Fellowship Omitted from history: How workers on India's construction sited mediated twentieth-century modernity http://www.buildingpune.com