Shiv Visvanathan

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Shiv Visvanathan is an Indian academic best known for his contributions to developing the field of

Stanford, Goldsmiths, Arizona State University and Maastricht University
, Harvard University & Oxford University. He is author of Organizing for Science (OUP, Delhi, 1985), A Carnival for Science (OUP, Delhi, 1997) and has co-edited Foulplay: Chronicles of Corruption (Banyan Books, Delhi, 1999). He has been consultant to the National Council of Churches and Business India.

As a public intellectual, he is a regular columnist to newspapers like The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Indian Express, The Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age. He also contributes to popular magazines like Outlook, India Today, Governance Today and Tehelka. His popular writings touch topics as wide as science, cricket, anthropology, development, intellectual history, and walking.[2]

Career

  • 1976–80 Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
  • 1980–82
    ICSSR
    Young Scientist Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi University
  • 1982–85 Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
  • 1983–85 Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation Faculty Expansion Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
  • 1985 Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
  • 1994 Senior Fellow,
    CSDS
    , 1994
  • 2004– Professor, DA-IICT
  • 2012– Professor, School of Government and Public Policy, O. P. Jindal Global University[3][4]

Visvanathan is member of Board of Management of

Center for Environmental Planning and Technology.[5]

Publications

Shiv is a regular columnist in all leading newspapers of India. His views generally tend to criticise right-wing politics.

  • Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory (1985)
  • A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development (1997)
  • Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption in India (1999)
  • Theatres of Democracy: Between the Epic and the Everyday: Selected Essays, ed. Chandan Gowda (2016)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Prof. (Dr.) Shiv Visvanathan |". 16 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Visvanathan, Shiv | CSPO". Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  3. ^ Visvanathan, Shiv. "CURRICULUM VITAE". Archived from the original on 2015-11-24.
  4. ISSN 0971-751X
    . Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  5. ^ "Cept University". Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-02-19.

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