Anand Sreekumar
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
Anand Sreekumar is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide. His research interests span inter alia South Asia, IR theory, political economy, intellectual history and nuclear issues.
He holds an MPhil in diplomacy and disarmament from the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD) at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also has an integrated Masters in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 - 2022 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India | M.Phil in International Relations (Diplomacy and Disarmament) |
| 2012 - 2017 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | India | Masters in Development Studies (Integrated) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Chacko, P., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the Calypsology of Sanitation Reforms. South Asia Journal of South Asia Studies, 48(1), 180-200. |
| 2025 | Sreekumar, A. (2025). Communist literary internationalism and worldmaking in the twentieth century: Kerala and the Soviet Union. Journal of Historical Geography, 88, 108-117. |
| 2023 | Sreekumar, A. (2023). The pacifist and the hypophysical: A cosmological reading of Gandhi. European Journal of International Security, 8(4), 431-449. Scopus1 |
| 2022 | Sreekumar, A. (2022). Feminism and Gandhi: imagining alternatives beyond Indian nuclearism. International Affairs, 98(4), 1189-1209. Scopus2 WoS3 |
| 2021 | Sreekumar, A. (2021). Reconciling the ecologism and spirituality of Auroville: A sociological approach. Bharata Mata Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies- Special issue, 8(2). |
| 2020 | Sreekumar, A. (2020). Exorcism and the Discourse of Kerala’s Exceptionalism. Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs, 55(26-27), 92-93. |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Irudaya Rajan, S., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). Reflections. In Handbook of Research on Migration Covid 19 and Cities (pp. 649-655). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI |
| 2025 | Yilmaz, I., Chacko, P., de Groot Heupner, S., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). The Transnationalisation of Strategic Digital Information Operations. In Authoritarian Actors and Strategic Digital Information Operations (pp. 209-233). Routledge. DOI |
| 2023 | Sreekumar, A. (2023). Climatic Politics of Non-State Actors in the Post-Pandemic Era: Insights from Eco-Cinema of the Global South. In Politics of Climate Change Crises Conventions and Cooperation (pp. 45-66). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. DOI |
| 2021 | Sreekumar, A. (2021). Gandhian sentimental cosmopolitanism: "Emotion" as a variable in international relations. In Revisiting Gandhi Legacies for World Peace and National Integration (pp. 21-39). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Sreekumar, A. (2025). The Soviet Utopia/Dystopia: Russian Literary Worlds in Cold-War Kerala. Ala: A Kerala Studies Blog. |
| 2024 | Irudaya Rajan, S., & Sreekumar, A. (2024). Selective, Reactive and Liminal. DOI |
| 2024 | Sreekumar, A. (2024). Beyond unipolarity and the Euro–American horizons of IR thought:Reflections on the emergent world order. The Peninsula Foundation. DOI |
| 2023 | Sreekumar, A. (2023). Towards Advocating a ‘Tradition Approach’ to Gandhian Nuclear Ethics. E-International Relations. |
| 2022 | Sreekumar, A. (2022). Book review: Politics and Technology. The Peninsula Foundation. |
University of Adelaide Research Scholarship (2023-2026)
University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship (2019-2022)