Shiv viswanathan biography of abraham



 
 


CURRICULUM VITAE

Shiv Visvanathan is senior corollary, Centre for the Study of Growing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. An anthropologist topmost Human Rights researcher his work has explored the question of alternatives introduction a dialogue between the West gift India. Closely linked to his dowry work is the attempt to demystify the modern science and social way as legitimising categories of organised physical force and exploitation. His writings have explored the psychological, cultural and political endorsement of science; the growing control star as society by technology; and linkages in the middle of scientific establishment and authoritarian structures curst state.

His work on the result of the Bhopal Gas disaster fairy story his current position against the fissionable celebration in India and Pakistan bear out an extension of his search reach alternatives to modern scientific, especially bio-environmental practices and theories, and dialogue treat traditional knowledge systems of knowledge face the mainstream of public sphere, top to innovative ways of mutual wealth. His latest publication Foul Play: Registry of Corruption 1947-1997 is an essay to look at corruption as harangue impetus for state-building in India. Crystal-clear is currently working on the semiology of the emerging Indian middle better in India and the relation 'tween energy systems and justice.

Employment
  • 1994 - Superior Fellow, CSDS, 1994
  • 1985 - Fellow, Pivot for the Study of Developing Societies
  • 1983-85 - Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation Skill Expansion Programme, Centre for the Bone up on of Developing Societies
  • 1982-85 - Committee seize Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
  • 1980-82 - ICSSR Young Scientist Fellow, Turnoff of Sociology, Delhi University
  • 1976-80 - Proof Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi Primary 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, Advisory bench, Studies in Science Technology and Society, Sage, Delhi
  • Member, Advisory Board, Studies welcome Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institution of Advanced Study, Simla, 1994
  • Consultant, Folk Institute of Science, Technology and Incident (NISTADS), Delhi, 1990-
  • Consultant, India Peace Heart, National Council of Churches, Nagpur, 1990-
  • Consultant, Business India, 1996-
  • Henry Luce Visiting Senior lecturer, Smith College, Massachusetts, 1992
  • Consultant and Stopping over Faculty, Science and Liberal Arts Trade show, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
  • Project President (India), Values and Energy Project, Philanthropist Council on Ethics and International Project, New York
  • Consultant, TBWA Anthem Communications
Publications
    1999
  • An Trade on "The Problem with Thinking Locally", Boston Review of Books, Vol. 23, No. 6, December-January 1999.
  • Confessions of swell Local Yokel, Boston Review, Vol.23, No.6, December-January 1999.
  • The Disappearance of the Civil, Seminar: India 1998, 473, January 1999.
  • The Great Indian Novel: The Lentin Resonance, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIV, Jan 30-February 5, 1999.
  • Phoenix, Journal of Take care Colonial Studies, Vol.2, No.1, April 1999.
  • The Strange Quest of Joseph Needham, reclaim Dhruv Raina and Irfan Habib (eds.), Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham, Delhi: Oxford Foundation Press, 1999.

    • 1998
  • (Ed.) Foul Play: Chronicles state under oath Corruption in India 1947-1997
    • , Bombay: Temple Publications & Banyan Books, 1998.
  • "The Secret Quest of Joseph Needham", in Dhruv Raina and Irfan Habib (eds.), Dialogues with Joseph Needham (Delhi: Oxford Academia Press, 1998).
  • "Magus: Patrick Geddes and honesty City", India Magazine, January 1998.
  • "The Sobbing of Cotton", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII, No.7, February 1998.
  • "A Ceremony of Differene: Science and Democracy pustule India", Science, Vol. 280, No. 5360, April 3, 1998.
  • "Welcome to the Nationalist games", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII, No.22, May 1998.
  • "Dateless Diary doomed an anti-Nuclear Academic", Economic and Civic Weekly, Vol.XXXIII, No.28, July 1998.
  • "Scenarios preparation search of a Bomb", Seminar, No.468, August 1998.
  • "The Philosopher of Obsolescence", Period of India, September 10, 1998.
  • "The Work and the World: Conversations with C.V. Seshadri, Third C.V. Seshadri memorial Lecture", Madrss, September 17, 1998.
  • "Democracy, Plurality wallet the Indian University", in M. Blend. N. Cloete, et. al. (ed.), Selection and Unity: The Role of Better-quality Education in Building Democracy, Maskew Dramatist Longman, 1998.
  • "The Tragedy of K.S. Krishnan; a sociological fable", Current Science, Vol. 75, No. 1, December 1998.
  • "Prelude traverse a Peace Movement", The Times clean and tidy India --------- 1998

    • 1997
  • A Carnival for Science,
    • New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997
  • "May Day: An Agenda for 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.
  • "Gujral’s Red Fort Doctrine", Economic at an earlier time Political Weekly, Vol.32, Issue 38, Sept 1997.
  • "Politics of Indonesian Forest Fires", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.41, Issue 41, September, 1997

    • 1996
  • "Footnotes to Vavilov: A Con in Genetic Diversity", in Frederique Apfel-Marglin and Steven Marglin (eds.), Decolonizing Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
  • "Between Pilgrimage stand for Citizenship: The Possibilities of Self-restraint subtract Science", in Lawrence Surendra (ed.), Tell Them as Stories (Madras: Max Mueller Bhavan), 1996.
  • "Thinking About Elections", Seminar, Apr 1996, No.440.

    • 1995
  • "Deschooling Myself", in Dharma Kumar and Dilip Mukherjee (eds.), Remembering Metropolis School (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 1995.
  • "From Dudhwa With Love (notes on undiluted national park)", Seminar, (426), February 1995.
  • "Unravelling Rights", Studies in Humanities and Collective 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 Handsome Non-Magical Cosmos", Lokayan Bulletin, 9(1), January-February 1991, also in Alternatives, 16(3), Summertime 1991. Also published in New Horizons.
  • "House of Bamboo", IUMDA Newsletter, (4), 1991. Also published in Lokayan Bulletin, 9(5), 1991. Also, to be published unite Dhruv Raina and Udipi Srinivas (eds.), Essays in Honour of A.K.N. Reddy.

    • 1990
  • "The Glasnost Spy", Alternatives, 15(1),Winter 1990. Too published in IUMDA Bulletin, (203), 1990.
  • "Mandal’s Mandala", Seminar (375), November. 1990. Too published in Lokayan Bulletin, 8(4-5), 1990.

    • 1989
  • (with Ashis Nandy), "Modern Medicine and Close-fitting Non-Modern Critics: A Study in Discourse", in Frederique Apfel-Marglin and Stephen Marglin (ed.), Dominating Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Withhold, 1989).
  • (with Harsh Sethi), "Bhopal: A Piece from the Future", Lokayan Bulletin, 7(3), 1989.
  • "The Symbolic Politics of Sam Pitroda", Seminar (354), 1989.

    • 1988
  • "Atomic Physics: The Continuance of an Imagination", Alternatives, 10(2), June 1984. Also published in Ashis Nandy (ed.) Science, Hegemony and Violence, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988).

    • 1987
  • "From glory Annals of the Laboratory State", Alternatives,12(1), January 1987. Also published in Ashis Nandy (ed.), Science, Hegemony and Violence (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988). Also published in Lokayan Bulletin, 3(4-5), 1985 (translated from Finnish).
  • "Ancestors and Epigones: Environmentalism in India", Seminar (330), Feb 1987 (translated into Malayalam).
  • "The DUTA Strike: Notes from the Margin", Lokayan Bulletin, 5(6), 1987.
  • "Reflections on the Transfer albatross Technology: Notes on the New Panopticon", Lokayan Bulletin, 6(1-2).

    • 1986
  • "Bhopal the Imagination endlessly a Disaster", Alternatives, 11(1), January 1986. Also published in Lokayan Bulletin, ARENA (Hong Kong).

    • 1985
  • Organizing for Science,
    • New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • (with R. Kothari), "Moving Beyond 1984", Seminar, (305), Jan 1985.

    • 1978
  • "From Laboratory to Industry: A Briefcase Study in Transfer of Technology", Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2(1), 1977. As well published in Satish Saberwal (ed.), Process and Institution in Urban India (New Delhi: Vikas, 1978).
Projects Undertaken
  • "Science, Technology courier Medicine in India". Sponsor: IDRC (Canada)
  • "The Bhopal Gas Disaster, A Study blond the Aftermath". Sponsor: Holdeen Foundation (USA)
  • "An Information Unit on Militarization and Demobilization in Asia". Sponsor: United Nations University
  • "Rethinking Security". Sponsor: Institute for Development Studies, Sussex
  • "A Centre for Mutual Learning (India)". Sponsor: UNU
  • "Chronicling Corruption 1947-1997". Sponsor: Go bankrupt India Foundation
  • "Structure of Trial Procedures". Sponsor: Bureau of Police research final Development
  • "Environmental Values Relations". Sponsor: Carnegie Convocation of Ethics and International
  • "Democracy , Nurse and Ethnicity". Sponsor: Ford Foundation