MULTIVERSITY: UNITED STATES CHAPTER


Advisory Council

Haji Mohamed Idris (Chairperson)

Claude Alvares (Convenor)

Gustavo Esteva
Mohideen Kader
Anwar Fazal
Ashis Nandy
Vinay Lal
Shilpa Jain

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Bibliography for Multiversity

Tier I

Cesaire, Aime. Discourse on Colonialism, trans. Joan Pinkham (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972 [1955]).

Davies, Merryl Wyn; Nandy, Ashis; and Sardar, Ziauddin. Barbaric Others: A Manifesto on Western Racism (London: Pluto Press, 1993).

Escobar, Arturo. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995).

Kothari, Manu and Mehta, Lopa. The Other Face of Cancer (Mapusa, Goa: The Other India Press, 1994).

Kothari, Smitu and Sethi, Harsh (eds.). Rethinking Human Rights: Challenges for Theory and Action (Delhi: Lokayan; New York: New Horizons Press, 1989).

Lal, Vinay (ed.). Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Strange Selves and Multiple Destinations of Ashis Nandy (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books; Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1999).

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995).

Uberoi, Jit Singh. Science and Culture (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1978).
----. The Other Mind of Europe: Goethe as a Scientist (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984).


Tier II

Alexander, George (ed.). Western State Terrorism (London: Routledge, 1991).

Arens, William. The Man-Eating Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).

Bauman, Zygmunt. Globalization: The Human Consequences (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).

----. Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, paperback ed., 1992).

Blaut, J. M. Eight Eurocentric Historians (New York: Guilford Press, 2000).

Brown, David J. and Merrill, Robert, eds. Violent Persuasions: The Politics and Imagery of Terrorism (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995).

Carse, James P. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986).

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Objects (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).

Harding, Sandra (ed.). The 'Racial' Economy of Science: Towards a

Democratic Future (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000).

Lummis, C. Douglas. Radical Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).

Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991).

McCully, Patrick. Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams (London: Zed Books, 1996).

Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1934; paperback ed., 1963).

Oberoi, Harjot. The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Panikkar, K. M. Asia and Western Dominance, new ed. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959).

Raina, Vinod; Chowdhury, Aditi; and Chowdhury, Sumit (eds.) The Dispossessed: Victims of Development in Asia (2nd ed., Hong Kong: ARENA [Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives] Press, 1999).
Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Sachs, Wolfgang. Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development (London: Zed Books, 1999).

Sachs, Wolfgang (ed.). Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (London: Zed Books, 1992).

Sardar, Ziauddin. Postmodernism and the Other: The New Imperialism of Western Culture (London: Pluto Press, 1998).

Sardar, Ziauddin (ed.). Rescuing All Our Futures (New York: Adamantine Press; London: Praeger, 1998).

Seamon, David and Zajonc, Arthur (eds.). Goethe's Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998).

Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India (London: Zed Books, 1988; Delhi: Kali for Women, 1988).
----. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Boston: South End Press, 2001).

Stannard, David. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Tucker, Richard P. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

Worsley, Peter. Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture (London: Profile Books, 1997; New York: The New Press, 1997).

Wright, Richard. Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes since 1492 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992).





 

 

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