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SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY

A University Established by SAARC Nations

SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY

A University established by SAARC Nations

Jayashree Vivekanandan

Associate Professor (Senior Grade)
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2008)

Contact Details

jayashree(at)sau.ac.in
South Asian University ,Rajpur Rd, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110068
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Profile

Dr. Jayashree Vivekanandan is Associate Professor (SG) at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Studies, South Asian University. She holds a PhD in International Politics from the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2017.

Jayashree is the author of Interrogating International Relations: India’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History, Routledge, New Delhi, and London, 2011. Her recent publication includes the edited volume The Past as Presence How the Everyday is Remaking International Relations in South Asia, Routledge Special Issues as Books Series, New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2026.

Jayashree's articles have appeared in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, India Review, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Studies in Indian Politics, among others. 

Her research interests include India's strategic history, environmental politics, transboundary resource governance in South Asia, and memory politics.

Qualifications

  • PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2008
  • M.A. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2001
  • B.A (Hons.) in Political Science from University of Delhi , in 1999

Research Interests

  • Critical International Relations theory
  • Indian strategic thought and practice
  • Transboundary resource governance in South Asia
  • Memory Politics
  • Postcolonial Theory

Recent Publications

  • ‘One World or Many? Critical Reflections on Cosmopolitanism and International Relations’, Journal of Polity and Society, 15 (2), forthcoming.
  • ‘Not just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities’, Studies in Indian Politics,12(1): 117-128, 2024.
  • ‘“Where We Need Water, We Find Guns Instead”: Understanding the Securitization of Sovereignty Claims on the Brahmaputra’, India Review, 23 (2): 134-153, 2024.
  • 'Context is King: Situating the Kautilyan Notion of Sovereignty within India's Strategic Traditions', Journal of Polity and Society, 13 (2), January-June 2022.
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on ‘Chronicling the histories of India: The politics of remembrance and commemoration’, India Review, 20 (5), 2021.
  • ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Chronicling the histories of India: The politics of remembrance and commemoration’, India Review, 20 (5): 483-496, 2021.
  • ‘Victorious Outliers: India’s Border Regions and the Contested Memory Politics of the Burma Campaign’ (co-authored with Nimmi Kurian), India Review, 20 (5): 497-509, 2021.
  • ‘Scratches on our Sovereignty? Analyzing Conservation Politics in the Sundarbans’, Regions and Cohesion, 11 (1): 1-20, 2021.
  • ‘” The Eyed Side of the Glass”: Transnational Curation and the Politics of Exhibiting the Empire in a post-Imperial World’, Postcolonial Studies, 24 (2):195-211, 2021.
  • ‘No Mountain too High? Assessing the Trans-territoriality of the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative’, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35 (2): 255-268, 2020.
  • ‘Indianisation or Indigenisation? Greater India and the Politics of Cultural Diffusionism’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 56 (1): 1-21, 2018.

Recent Books

Interrogating International Relations: India’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History, War and International Politics in South Asia Series, New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2011.

Last Updated : 28 Jun 2026