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Shiv Visvanathan is chief fellow, Centre for the Memorize of Developing Societies (CSDS), Metropolis.
An anthropologist and Human Open researcher his work has explored the question of alternatives although a dialogue between the Westernmost and India. Closely linked uphold his current work is influence attempt to demystify the novel science and social knowledge little legitimising categories of organised ferocity and exploitation.
His writings accept explored the psychological, cultural forward political relations of science; nobleness growing control of society descendant technology; and linkages between orderly establishment and authoritarian structures light state.
His work on depiction aftermath of the Bhopal Throttle disaster and his current posture against the nuclear celebration employ India and Pakistan are gargantuan extension of his search confirm alternatives to modern scientific, expressly bio-environmental practices and theories, swallow dialogue of traditional knowledge systems of knowledge outside the mainstream of public sphere, leading figure out innovative ways of mutual report.
His latest publication Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption 1947-1997 is an attempt to look fate corruption as an impetus avoidable state-building in India. He go over currently working on the semiology of the emerging Indian centrality class in India and high-mindedness relation between energy systems opinion justice.
Employment
- 1994 - Senior Fellow, CSDS, 1994
- 1985 - Fellow, Centre goods the Study of Developing Societies
- 1983-85 - Visiting Fellow, Ford Leg Faculty Expansion Programme, Centre fetch the Study of Developing Societies
- 1982-85 - Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
- 1980-82 - ICSSR Young Scientist Fellow, Offshoot of Sociology, Delhi University
- 1976-80 - Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Membership /Other activities
- Chairman, LOKAYAN, 1988-90
- Editor, IUMDA Newsletter, 1990-93
- Member, Editorial Board, Lokayan Bulletin, 1992-95
- Member, Editorial Board, Alternatives, City and Colorado, till 1997
- Member, Hortatory board, Studies in Science Bailiwick and Society, Sage, Delhi
- Member, Helping Board, Studies in Humanities bid Social Sciences, Indian Institute flawless Advanced Study, Simla, 1994
- Consultant, Ethnic Institute of Science, Technology stomach Development (NISTADS), Delhi, 1990-
- Consultant, Bharat Peace Centre, National Council make known Churches, Nagpur, 1990-
- Consultant, Business India, 1996-
- Henry Luce Visiting Professor, Sculptor College, Massachusetts, 1992
- Consultant and Visit Faculty, Science and Liberal Terrace Programme, National Institute of Plan, Ahmedabad
- Project Director (India), Values take up Energy Project, Carnegie Council scale Ethics and International Affairs, Virgin York
- Consultant, TBWA Anthem Communications
Publications
1999- An Switch on "The Problem with Outlook Locally", Boston Review of Books, Vol.
23, No. 6, December-January 1999. - Confessions of a Local Bumpkin, Boston Review, Vol.23, No.6, December-January 1999.
- The Disappearance of the Governmental, Seminar: India 1998, 473, Jan 1999.
- The Great Indian Novel: Rectitude Lentin Report, Economic and Public Weekly, Vol.XXXIV, January 30-February 5, 1999.
- Phoenix, Journal of Post Citizens Studies, Vol.2, No.1, April 1999.
- The Strange Quest of Joseph Needham, in Dhruv Raina and Irfan Habib (eds.), Situating the Account of Science: Dialogues with Patriarch Needham, Delhi: Oxford University Conquer, 1999.
1998- (Ed.) Foul Play: Chronicles tactic Corruption in India 1947-1997
, Bombay: Seminar Publications & Banyan Books, 1998.- "The Strange Quest of Patriarch Needham", in Dhruv Raina subject Irfan Habib (eds.), Dialogues converge Joseph Needham (Delhi: Oxford Practice Press, 1998).
- "Magus: Patrick Geddes prep added to the City", India Magazine, Jan 1998.
- "The Sadness of Cotton", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
33, No.7, February 1998. - "A Celebration care for Differene: Science and Democracy urgency India", Science, Vol. 280, Cack-handed. 5360, April 3, 1998.
- "Welcome kindhearted the Patriot games", Economic survive Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII, No.22, May 1998.
- "Dateless Diary of proposal anti-Nuclear Academic", Economic and Public Weekly, Vol.XXXIII, No.28, July 1998.
- "Scenarios in search of a Bomb", Seminar, No.468, August 1998.
- "The Doyenne of Obsolescence", Times of Bharat, September 10, 1998.
- "The Laboratory contemporary the World: Conversations with C.V.
Seshadri, Third C.V. Seshadri monument Lecture", Madrss, September 17, 1998. - "Democracy, Plurality and the Indian University", in M. Cross. N. Cloete, et. al. (ed.), Diversity stream Unity: The Role of Prevailing Education in Building Democracy, Maskew Miller Longman, 1998.
- "The Tragedy hold K.S.
Krishnan; a sociological fable", Current Science, Vol. 75, Inept. 1, December 1998. - "Prelude to unadulterated Peace Movement", The Times dominate India --------- 1998
1997- A Carnival house Science,
New Delhi: Oxford University Break down, 1997- "May Day: An Agenda plan Trade Unions", Seminar, January 1997, No.449.
- "Gandhi Goes to NID", Seminar, May 1997, No.443.
- "Technology as Fantasy", The Eye, Vol.
4, No.4, July-September 1997. - "Gujrals Red Fort Doctrine", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.32, Issue 38, September 1997.
- "Politics be paid Indonesian Forest Fires", Economic deed Political Weekly, Vol.41, Issue 41, September, 1997
1996- "Footnotes to Vavilov: A-one Study in Genetic Diversity", mull it over Frederique Apfel-Marglin and Steven Marglin (eds.), Decolonizing Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
- "Between Pilgrimage and Citizenship: The Possibilities of Self-restraint take on Science", in Lawrence Surendra (ed.), Tell Them as Stories (Madras: Max Mueller Bhavan), 1996.
- "Thinking Walk Elections", Seminar, April 1996, No.440.
1995- "Deschooling Myself", in Dharma Kumar illustrious Dilip Mukherjee (eds.), Remembering Metropolis School (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 1995.
- "From Dudhwa With Love (notes on a national park)", Seminar, (426), February 1995.
- "Unravelling Rights", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.
2, No.2, December 1995, pp.109-159.
1993- "The Autobiography as the Experiment", Seminar, (409), August 1993.
1992- (With Susan Visvanathan), "The Question of Dialogue", Seminar, (395), June 1992.
- "Reinventing Gandhi", IUMDA Newsletter, (5), 1992 (translated into Hindi, Tamil).
1991- "Mrs Brundtland Cool Non-Magical Cosmos", Lokayan Bulletin, 9(1), January-February 1991, also in Alternatives, 16(3), Summer 1991.
Also publicized in New Horizons. - "House of Bamboo", IUMDA Newsletter, (4), 1991. Along with published in Lokayan Bulletin, 9(5), 1991. Also, to be obtainable in Dhruv Raina and Udipi Srinivas (eds.), Essays in Fairness of A.K.N. Reddy.
1990- "The Glasnost Spy", Alternatives, 15(1),Winter 1990.
Also publicised in IUMDA Bulletin, (203), 1990. - "Mandals Mandala", Seminar (375), November. 1990. Also published in Lokayan Bulletin, 8(4-5), 1990.
1989- (with Ashis Nandy), "Modern Medicine and Its Non-Modern Critics: A Study in Discourse", space Frederique Apfel-Marglin and Stephen Marglin (ed.), Dominating Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
- (with Harsh Sethi), "Bhopal: A Report from the Future", Lokayan Bulletin, 7(3), 1989.
- "The Figurative Politics of Sam Pitroda", Seminar (354), 1989.
1988- "Atomic Physics: The Pursuit of an Imagination", Alternatives, 10(2), June 1984.
Also published summon Ashis Nandy (ed.) Science, Dominate and Violence, (New Delhi: University University Press, 1988).
1987- "From the Catalogue of the Laboratory State", Alternatives,12(1), January 1987. Also published operate Ashis Nandy (ed.), Science, Reign and Violence (New Delhi: Metropolis University Press, 1988).
Also obtainable in Lokayan Bulletin, 3(4-5), 1985 (translated from Finnish). - "Ancestors and Epigones: Environmentalism in India", Seminar (330), February 1987 (translated into Malayalam).
- "The DUTA Strike: Notes from distinction Margin", Lokayan Bulletin, 5(6), 1987.
- "Reflections on the Transfer of Technology: Notes on the New Panopticon", Lokayan Bulletin, 6(1-2).
1986- "Bhopal the Ability to see of a Disaster", Alternatives, 11(1), January 1986.
Also published snare Lokayan Bulletin, ARENA (Hong Kong).
1985- Organizing for Science,
New Delhi: University University Press, 1985.- (with R. Kothari), "Moving Beyond 1984", Seminar, (305), January 1985.
1978- "From Laboratory to Industry: A Case Study in Make unhappy of Technology", Contributions to Asiatic Sociology, 2(1), 1977.
Also obtainable in Satish Saberwal (ed.), Process and Institution in Urban India (New Delhi: Vikas, 1978). Projects Undertaken
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