Anupama Devendrakumar, PhD
UNESCO Chair Vietnam
Research Scientist — Heritage Economics
College of Arts and Sciences
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr. Anupama Devendrakumar is a Senior Lecturer of Global Political Economy. Prior to this role, she held positions as Adjunct Faculty at the College of Natural Resources, Royal University of Bhutan; Lecturer at the College of Maritime Studies and Management, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; and Researcher at the ASEAN Studies Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Currently, her research critically examines globalization’s impact on Vietnam’s textile and clothing industry, the country’s second-largest export sector. Her broader research interests encompass globalization, international trade and investment, and regional economic integration, focusing on ASEAN and its dialogue partners, and the nature and scope of China’s growing presence in ASEAN. She co-edited China’s Rising Influence and its Belt and Road Initiative: Its Significance, Progress, and Challenges for ASEAN (2022) and China’s Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes (2019), both published by World Scientific, Singapore.
Dr. Anupama is committed to innovative teaching and learning. Her current research explores how teachers’ narratives, storytelling, critical autoethnography, and identity/cultural positioning can foster multicultural learning environments, and the incorporation of global citizenship education (GCE) in curriculum and teaching. She enjoys literature and world cinema and has been based in Southeast Asia since 2011.
- Regional Economic Integration
- International Trade and Investment
- India-ASEAN Relations
- China in Mainland ASEAN
- Globalization
- Global Citizenship Education
Courses:
- Global Political Economy
- Big Ideas: Globalization and World Order
- Rural Enterprise Development
Areas of Interest:
- Global Citizenship Education
- Active Learning Methods
- Systems Analysis Approach to Teaching and Learning
- Critical Autoethnography in Teaching and Learning
- Multicultural Education
Suthiphand Chirathivat, Buddhagarn Rutchatorn and Anupama Devendrakumar, eds. China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: Growing Presence, Recent Progress and Future Challenges, Volume 3. Singapore: World Scientific Publications, 2022.
Suthiphand Chirathivat, Buddhagarn Rutchatorn and Anupama Devendrakumar, eds. China’s Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes, Volume 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publications, 2019.
Devendraumar, Anupama. A review of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs): Evidence from ASEAN India trade, by Prabir De, Durairaj Kumarasamy, and Komal Biswal, New Delhi: ASEAN-India Centre at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), 2019, 182 pp., ISBN: 81-7122-145-9.
Chirathivat, Suthiphand and Devendrakumar, Anupama. “Introduction”. In China’s Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN: Growing Presence, Recent Progress and Future Challenges, Volume 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publications (forthcoming), November 2021.
Devendrakumar, Anupama. “Contemporary Influences of China and India in Mainland ASEAN: Comparative Perspectives”. In China’s Rising Influence in Mainland ASEAN:
Implications, Local and Regional Responses, Volume 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publications (forthcoming), 2019.
Chirathivat, Suthiphand and Devendrakumar, Anupama. “Introduction”. In China’s Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscapes, Volume 1. Singapore: World Scientific Publications, 2019.
Srisangnam, Piti and Devendrakumar, Anupama. “Unlocking North–Eastern Region of India: ASEAN Connectivity Perspective”. In Mainstreaming the Northeast in India’s Look and Act East Policy. Eds. Atul Sarma and Dr. Saswati Choudhury. New Delhi: Springer Publications, 2018.
Chirathivat, Suthiphand and Devendrakumar, Anupama. “ASEAN-India Connectivity – Progress So Far”. In Celebrating the Third Decade and Beyond: New Challenges to ASEAN-India Economic Partnership. Eds. Prabir De and Suthiphand Chirathivat. New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd., 2012.
- PhD Economics – Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- MA Economics – University of Mysore, India
- Summer School Fellowship on Human Rights and Human Development awarded by the University of Humanistic Studies and the Kosmopolis Institute, the Netherlands, held in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2010.
- Six Gold Medals awarded by the University of Mysore for all-round proficiency, and academic excellence in M.A. Economics.
