Shiv Visvanathan

1952-·4,357 citations

Shiv Visvanathan is an Indian social anthropologist and public intellectual known for his foundational contributions to science and technology studies (STS) and for coining the concept of 'cognitive justice'. He is currently a Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University and has previously held senior positions at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT).

Works

156 works

Title	Year	Language	Citations▼
Another knowledge is possible: Beyond northern epistemologies	2020	—	1,244
A carnival for science: Essays on science, technology, and development	1997	en	502
The search for cognitive justice	2009	en	286
Knowledge, justice and democracy	2005	en	208
From the annals of the laboratory state	1987	—	182
Organizing for science	1985	—	177
Mrs. Brundtland's disenchanted cosmos	1991	—	141
Alternative science	2006	—	118
Modern medicine and its non-modern critics: A study in discourse	1990	—	100
A celebration of difference: science and democracy in India	1998	—	85
A biotechnology story: notes from India	2002	en	61
The race for caste: Prolegomena to the Durban conference	2001	en	59
La quête de justice cognitive	2016	entr.	57
Democracy, plurality and Indian university	2000	—	57
The future of science studies	2002	—	49
Durban and Dalit discourse	2001	—	44
Between cosmology and system: The heuristics of a dissenting imagination	2007	—	40
Marriage, birth and death: Property rights and domestic relationships of the Orthodox/Jacobite Syrian Christians of Kerala	1989	—	34
II. Bhopal : The imagination of a disaster	1986	—	33
Official hegemony and contesting pluralisms	2020	—	31
Environmental values, policy, and conflict in India	2000	—	30
Knowledge and information in a network society	2001	—	30
The necessity of corruption	2008	—	29
An Essay on Gene Diversity	1996	—	23
Democracy, governance and science: Strange case of the missing discipline	2001	—	20
Narendra Modi's symbolic war	2014	—	19
Cultural Encounters and the Orient: a Study in the Politics of Knowledge	2003	en	19
'The Laboratory and the World': Conversations with CV Seshadri	2002	—	19
Anna Hazare and the battle against corruption	2012	—	17
An invitation to a science war	2007	en	17
Nation	2006	—	17
Interrogating the nation	2003	—	17
The grand sociology of Manuel Castells	2001	—	15
From the Green Revolution to the Evergreen Revolution: Studies in discourse analysis	2003	—	15
The children of nature: The life and legacy of Ramana Maharshi	2010	—	15
Women and work: From Housewifisation to androgyny	1996	en	14
From laboratory to industry: a case study of the transfer of technology	1977	—	14
Reconstructions of the past among the Syrian Christians of Kerala	1986	—	12
The homogeneity of fundamentalism: Christianity, British colonialism and India in the nineteenth century	2000	—	12
Technology transfer	2001	—	12
The Remaking of Narendra Modi	2013	—	12
Supreme Court constructs a dam	2000	—	11
Theatres of democracy	2016	—	11
Structure and transformation: theory and society in India	2001	—	10
The search for cognitive justice. 2009	2017	en	10
The crorepati narratives	2000	—	9
On unravelling rights	1995	—	9
The dreams of reason: Rabindranath Tagore and the invention of science in India	2013	en	8
The pluriverse of failure in Indian science	2016	—	8
Welcome to the patriot games	1998	—	8