Spudayakumar

S. P. Udayakumar directs the South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (SACCER) in India to carry out community work, and educational and research ventures.

An ACTIVE member of the World Futures Studies Federation and the International Peace Research Association, Udayakumar takes special interest in Futures Studies and Peace Studies. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Futures Studies and also the Director of TRANSCEND South Asia.

His numerous papers and books have focussed on various socioeconomic-political issues: ‘Presenting’ the Past: Anxious History and Anient Future in Hindutva India (Praeger, 2005); Disaster Education (TSA, 2005); The Koodankulam Handbook (TSA, 2004); Handcuffed to History: Narratives, Pathologies and Violence in South Asia (Praeger, 2001); Education for Development and Peace (with Johan Galtung, forthcoming); “India and Pakistan: A Twosome Trouble, or a Troublesome Two?” “Race, Poverty and Globalization,” “Futures Facilitators and Futures Studies,” “‘Om-made’ History: Preparing the Unlettered for the Future Hindu Rashtra,” “Nukes as a Way of Life?: Contextualizing the Nuclear Madness in South Asia, A Review Essay,” “The Deadly Slide: Understanding Regress,” “Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History: The Ayodhya Case in India,” “Accursed Futures and Redemptive Fantasies: An Analysis of the Indo-Pakistan Predicament,” “Landing Peace Theory on Solid Ground,” “Mapping the ‘Hindu’ Remaking of India,” “South Asia: Before and After,” “Betraying a Futurist: The Misappropriation of Gandhi's Ramarajya," "The Free Trade Frenzy," "The Peacekeeping Triangle," "The Futures of the Poor," "Regional Cooperation in South Asia: The People Factor."