Jayashree Vivekanandan

Associate Professor

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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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
Environmental politics in South Asia
Memory Politics
Postcolonial Theory

Recent Publications

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.
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.
‘Civilisation Drove Forward in a Mortuary Cart: Reading Colonial Constructions of Violence’, South Asian Survey, 21 (1-2): 227-242, 2014.
Strategy, Legitimacy and the Imperium: Framing the Mughal Strategic Discourse in Kanti Bajpai, V. Krishnappa and Saira Basit (eds.) India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases, War and International Politics in South Asia Series, New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2014.
‘The Text as Tradition: Interpreting India’s Strategic History’ in Arvind Gupta, P K Gautam and Saurabh Mishra (eds.), Indigenous Historical Knowledge: Kautilya and his Vocabulary, Part Two, New Delhi: IDSA, forthcoming, 2014.

Last Updated : 03 Jan 2024