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Modernity, Frameworks of Knowledge, and the Ecological Survival of Plurality  http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/default.htm
An Introduction to the Multiversity Enterprise-
United States Chapter

Vinay Lal

RECAPTURING WORLDS   http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/Claude_proposal.htm   (The Original Multiversity Proposal, September 2001)
Claude Alvares (Other India Press, Goa, India)

   http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/Claude_proposal.htm

Inaugural Conference of Multiversity, February 2002, Penang, Malaysia.

The following papers, speeches and documents are available from the inaugural Multiversity conference in Penang, February 2002:

S. M. Mohamed Idris, Inaugural Address: "The Launch of Multiversity" http://vlal.bol.ucla.edu/multiversity/Right_menu_items/2002conf/Idris_launch.htm The world system has perfected a method of training and selection that enables it to recruit for its needs apparently the brightest and the best, and after selection, to use such recruits against the interests of the rest.

The creative energy of children and youth, from the age of five till the early twenties, is first frozen by suppression, then allowed gradually to atrophy till it appears to disappear completely from their normal life.

how we can take down our present universities, instigate students to rise against the tyranny of dreams pushed by corporate machines and organize workshops to encourage faculty to rebel against the domination of Western intellectuals and create their own creative universes.

Bhupinder Chimni, "On Being Colonized by 'International Law'"

Mohideen Kader, "Colonialism and the Legal Structures of Malaysia"

B. S. Chimni, "Lawyers for International Justice", a briefing prepared subsequent to the conference.

Jessica Hutchins, "Some Thoughts on Maori Science and Education"

Claude Alvares, "The Multiversity Enterprise"

Ashis Nandy, "My Idea of Multiversity"

Claude Alvares, "On Books, Publishing, and Intellectual Independence from the West"

Pawan K. Gupta, "Reflections on Multiversity -- Post-Malaysia"

Yusef Progler, "Multiversity Notes: Reflections on Readings and Resources: Definitive and Affective Dimensions"

The following papers were published in the special issue on "Multiversity: Challenging Intellectual Globalization" of "Humanscape" (Vol. 12, no. 4, April 2005), a journal that comes out from Mumbai. Copies of the journal can be purchased from the Foundation for Humanisation 11 Yogniti, 18 S. V. Road Santacruz (W), Mumbai 400054, India
website: www.humanscape.org
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Vinay Lal, "The west and the rest".

Syed Farid Alatas, "The alternative to Eurocentrism".

Fred Y. L. Chiu, "Towards a people-centered anthropology: An anthropologist's
discovery of multiplicity and diversity".

Roby Rajan, "Those funny little graphs".

Jorge Ishizawa, "Community-based learning in the Peruvian Andes".

Why Modi govt did not condemn Bidhuri & Pragya for their remarks, & the Khalistan issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESd7wlPzL-U Sep 29, 2023
'What would have happened had a legislator behaved like BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri in any other parliamentary democracy?'- Author & Columnist Vir Sanghvi argues that the only reason why Modi govt did not condemn his remarks is because it's election season again & the BJP needs to keep the Hindutva faction faithful on its side in MP, Rajasthan & other states. Watch #ThePrintSharpEdge

 The Global Risks Report 2023 18th Edition https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf

Global risks ranked by severity over the short and long term

In two years
Cost-of-living crisis
Natural disasters and extreme weather events
Geoeconomic confrontation
Failure to mitigate climate change
Erosion of social cohesion and societal polarization
Large-scale environmental damage
Failure of climate change adaptation
Widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity
Natural resource crises
Large-scale involuntary migration

In 10 years
Failure to mitigate climate change
Failure of climate-change adaptation
Natural disasters and extreme weather events
Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse
Large-scale involuntary migration
Natural resource crises
Erosion of social cohesion and societal polarization
Widespread cybercrime and cyber insecurity
Geoeconomic confrontation
Large-scale environmental damage

Global Risks 2033: Tomorrow’s Catastrophes
2.1 The world in 2033
2.2 Natural ecosystems: past the point of no return
2.3 Human health: perma-pandemics and chronic capacity challenges
2.4 Human security: new weapons, new conflicts
2.5 Digital rights: privacy in peril
2.6 Economic stability: global debt distress