Shiv Visvanathan is Professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/people/faculty.html, Gandhinagar. He was Senior fellow Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi and has taught at the Delhi School of Economics. He has held visiting professorships at Smith ( Massachusetts) Stanford, Goldsmiths(London) Arizona and Maastrich http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Misc/UMIndia/MaastrichtUniversityIndiaInstitute/Events/22062010.htm. 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. He is a regular columnist to newspapers like The New Indian Express, Indian Express and The Deccan Chronicle and The Asian Age. He also contributes to popular magazines like Outlook, India Today, Governance Today and Tehelka.

ACADEMIC INTERESTS
His interests center on cultures of knowledge, popular culture, urban studies,the sociology of corruption, sociology and philosophy of science, history of technology, social movements, globalization, culture and the politics of environmentalism, disaster management and futures

Membership /Other activities : Chairman, LOKAYAN, 1988-90; Editor, IUMDA Newsletter, 1990-93; Member, Editorial Board, Lokayan Bulletin, 1992-95; Member, Editorial Board, Alternatives, Delhi and Colorado, till 1997; Member, Advisory board, Studies in Science Technology and Society, Sage, Delhi (till 2004), Member, Advisory Board, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla,( till 1994) Member of Board of Management of [Center for Environmental Planning and Technology]

Career

• 2004- Professor, DA-IICT
• 1994 - Senior Fellow, CSDS, 1994
• 1985 - Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
• 1983-85 - Visiting Fellow, Ford Foundation Faculty Expansion Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
• 1982-85 - Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi
• 1980-82 - ICSSR Young Scientist Fellow, Department of Sociology, Delhi University
• 1976-80 - Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
  Delhi School of Economics
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Shiv is member of Board of Management of Center for Environmental Planning and Technology

Center for Environmental Planning and Technology

Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University is an academic institution located in Ahmedabad, India offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in areas of natural and developed environment of human society and related disciplines.-History:The , a premier educational body...

Publications

Shiv is a regular columnist in all leading newspapers of India.

• 1985 - Organizing for Science: The Making of an Industrial Research Laboratory
• 1997 - A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development
• 1999- Foul Play : Chronicles of Corruption in India

External links

• Best Paper Awards (International Conference on Demography, Culture, and Marketing (2010))
• ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: A Celebration of Difference: Science and Democracy in India (sciencemag.org)

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