Lokavidya Perspectives

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A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age

Edited By Amit Basole

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Table of Contents
Preface 7
List of Contributors 9
Introduction
– Amit Basole		 11

I. Transition to Knowledge Society
Knowledge Management versus Knowledge Production
– Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 25
Dialogues on Knowledge in Society
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 28
Internet and the shifting grounds of knowledge
-Avinash Jha		 33
The current conflict in knowledge societies
– B.Krishnarajulu		 45
Towards a New World of Ideas
-J.K.Suresh		 49
Knowledge Flux and the Demand on Thought
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 99
Towards a Gandhian Approach to Knowledge Politics
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 120
Invention, Innovation, and Freedom
-Avinash Jha		 157
Jaipur Lectures on the Knowledge Society
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 162

II. Lokavidya: Epistemics and Politics
Lokavidya Approach to the Women’s Movement: Women’s Knowledge Holds the Key

– Chitra Sahasrabudhey

 

 173
A lokavidya perspective on today’s social movements
– Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 193
Agaria-Vidya: A Link in the Philosophy of Emancipation
– Sunil Sasrabudhey		 205
Knowledge in Society and the Knowledge Society: Opening the debate for a new millennium
-Ananya Vajpeyi		 224
Traditional Knowledge – or ‘Natures’ Knowledge?
-Jinan K.B		 233
Re-legitimisation of Knowledge in Society .
-B. Krishnarajulu		 240
Infinity of Web, Reality of Lokavidya and Coming of Global Gods
-K.K. Surendran		 254
Lokavidya and Ordinary Life
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 261
The Promise of Lokavidya
-Vijay Kundaji		 264

III. Economics of Lokavidya

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Local Market: A Fundamental Basis to Challenge Globalization
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 270
Karigar samaj: The liberator of enslaved societies
-Chitra Sahasrabudhey		 292
Knowledge, Work, and Education
-Amit Basole		 316
Lokavidya Goes Virtual: Indigenous Knowledge in the Gatesian Age
-Amit Basole		 341

IV. Lokavidya and the University
Re-inventing the Indian University: Arguing from a Lokavidya Standpoint
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey and Amit Basole		 354
Eurocentrism, the Univeristy, and Multiple Sites of Knowledge Production
-Amit Basole		 371
The Autonomous Global University
-Avinash Jha		 379

V. Lokavidya Jan andolan
First International Conference, Announcement
Lokavidya Jan andolan – Inaugurating a Dialog
-Amit Basole		 390
Lokavidya and Science
-Avinash Jha		 393
Shudra of the Modern World and Lokavidya
-Lalit Kaul		 395
Farmers’ Movement and LJA
-Girish Sahasrabudhe		 400
A Perspective from the European Students’ Movement
-Gigi Roggero		 404
With Lokavidya Lies the Solution
-Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 407
Lokavidya from a Public Health Movement Perspective
-Ritu Priya		 409
“Right to Livelihood based on Lokavidya” Act: Concept Note
-B.Krishnarajulu		 412
LJA: Engaging the leftists and the progressives
-AmitBasole		 416
Afterword
– Sunil Sahasrabudhey		 419
Glossary 421

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