Dr. T. T. Sreekumar is an Indian writer, orator, social and literary critic, and political analyst. He is currently working in The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad as Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and also serves as the Director of Educational Multimedia Research Center (EMRC).[1] He is a bilingual author of several books and articles in Malayalam and English, and pens a fortnightly column since 2014 in Madhyamam.
Beginning his career as lecturer at Institute of Management in Government, Thiruvananthapuram in 1996, Sreekumar worked as doctoral instructor in HKUST and later joined National University of Singapore as faculty in 2004. He was the Professor and chair, Fellows program and Head, Digital Communications at MICA, Ahamedabad during 2013–2016. In 2017, he joined The School of Interdisciplinary Studies, English and Foreign Languages University as Professor.
Sreekumar's papers on Asian modernity,[1] development, e-governance,[2] mobile ecology and rural network societies focus on socio-political critique of information technology and New Media. His book ICTs and Development in India: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal glorification of the notion of ICT4D (Information and communication technologies for development).[jargon]
Writings
He is a Malayalam writer and columnist. Some of his books are Utharadhunikakkappuram (Beyond Postmodernism), Charitravum Adhunikathayum (History and Modernity), Civil samoohavum idathupakshavum (Civil Society and the Left), Nava Samoohikatha (New Sociality), Vayanayum Prathirodhavum (Reading and Resistance), Punarvayanakalile Karl Marx (Re-reading Karl Marx), Posthuman Vicharalokangal (Posthuman Thinking), and Navodhana Charithra darshanam (Historical Philosophy of the Renaissance). Naalaam Kannu, a Madhyamam newspaper, publishes his critical viewpoints on the sociopolitical surroundings of Kerala every two weeks.
He received the C.B.Kumar Endowment Award of Kerala Sahitya Academy in 2020 for the book Vayanayum Prathirodhavum.[3]
List of Books
English
ICTs and Development in India: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society, London: Anthem Press, 2011
Urban Process in Kerala: 1900-1981. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies, 1993
Malayalam
Navothana Charithra Darshanam (The Historical Philosophy of Renaissance). Kozhikode: Mathrubhumi Books, 2024.
Rashtram, Charithram, Bhaumarashtreeyam: Samskarika Vishakalanangal (The Nation, History and Geopolitics: Cultural Analyses). Kozhikode: Pustaka Prasadhaka Sangham, 2024.
He has been the Chief Editor (2013-2017) of Journal of Creative Communications, and the Associate Editor (2014-2019) of Media Asia (Taylor & Francis). Currently he is the editor of International Journal of Media Studies, published by EFL University.