A K Giri
Biographic Data
| ID | 10905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A K Giri |
| GIVEN NAMES | A K |
| FAMILY NAME | Giri |
| SIGNATURE | GIRI A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Madras Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7090-0923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sustainable development goals and Gandhian constructive programs: Pluriversal evolutionary flourishing, transcivilizational dialogues and planetary realizations
Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond
Caste is a multidimensional reality in history and society, and it has manifested itself through varieties of structures of domination which are simultaneously cultural, economic, political and ideological as caste has also been related in complex ways with structures of class and gender domination. These structures of domination have led to the annihilation of self and society. This led Ambedkar to challenge us for annihilating caste. For Ambedk…
Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy: Mapping Alternative Planetary Futures
"This book analyses contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices. It carries out a multi-pronged critical and transformative dialogue involving political economy, moral economy, moral sociology, moral anthropology, and spiritual ecology. The authors discuss diverse themes such as the relationship between consciousness and society, the dialogue between Karl Marx and C…
Rethinking and Transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A New Cosmopolitanism and the Challenges of Planetary Realizations
Social quality based on ecotourism and creative economy in a language tourism village in Indonesia
Language Tourism Villages have the potential to be developed in areas of cultural diversity, ecotourism activities, and the creative economy. Local wisdom and cultural events can enhance the creativity of a community and give economic value to rural communities. This research aims to describe how the synergy between ecotourism and the creative economy improves social quality. The data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and fo…
Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations
Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments. This construction emerged after the end of the Second World War and reflected the geopolitical construction of the world into different areas. It formed part of the Cold War environment, applying American social science tools to regional analysis. This essay argues that we rethink and tran…
Cultural understanding: Multi-topial hermeneutics, planetary conversations and dialogues with Confucianism and Vedanta
Covid-19, Structural Inequalities and the Challenges of Self- and Social Transformations: Critical Ontologies and Epistemologies of the Present and Alternative Planetary Futures
With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South: Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Calling of Planetary Realisations
Our contemporary moment is a moment of crisis of epistemology as a part of the wider and deeper crisis of modernity and the human condition. The crisis of epistemology emerges from the limits of the epistemic as it is tied to epistemology of procedural certainty and closure. The crisis of epistemology also reflects the limits of epistemology closed within the Euro-American universe of discourse. It is in this context that the present essay discus…
Cultivating New Movements and Circles of Meaning Generation: Upholding our World, Regenerating Our Earth and the Calling of a Planetary Lokasamgraha
Meaning is a key foundation of human life. We yearn to make our life meaningful and have a proper understanding of the meaning of words and worlds, which help us in blossoming of life rather than being trapped in labyrinths of confusion and annihilated in varieties of killing and destruction. But this fundamental yearning for meaning has always been under stress in different periods and epochs of human history. In our contemporary world, we are a…
Lifeworlds and Living Words
Lifeworld is a multi-dimensional concept and reality in philosophy, social sciences and in our practice of living. The present essay explores its different meanings and interpretations starting from Edmund Husserl to Jurgen Habermas in the European intellectual tradition and Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, J.N. Mohanty and Margaret Chatterjee in the Indic traditions. It rethinks the Habermasian idea of colonisation of the lifeworld and argues how …
Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations
Philosophy and anthropology: Border crossing and transformations
'Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations' is an innovative and original collection of essays exploring the relationships between philosophy and anthropology - historically and presently - and the theoretical and practical issues concerning their dialogue
Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge self, social and spiritual can play a transformative role. Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar …
Swaraj as Blossoming: Compassion, Confrontation and a New Art of Integration
The article seeks a new way of co-walking with Gandhi and his epochal Hind Swaraj. It seeks to reconstitute and realize Swaraj not only as self-rule but also as blossoming of self, other and the world. An uncritical and mechanical rendering of Swaraj as self-rule does not address the problem that self-rule is not always accompanied by visions and practices of co-determination, co-constitution and co-responsibility. Swaraj as self-rule and self-de…
Sociology as a Quest for a Good Society: A Conversation with Robert Bellah
Quest for a good society has a long pedigree in sociological thought and critical reflections. It vibrates with many themes of liberation, morality and justice in classical sociology as pioneered by thinkers such as Marx and Durkheim and themes of decent society and creative society in recent theoretical discourses. The present essay discusses this quest for a good society in contemporary social sciences with a detailed discussion of the work of …
Chitta Ranjan Das: A Creative Thinker
Chitta Ranjan Das (1923–2011) was a creative seeker and transformative thinker who was engaged with manifold creative experiments in education, literature, cultural creativity and social criticism. He pioneered the integral education movement in Odisha following his earlier experiment in starting an experimental school named Jeevana Vidyalaya (School of Life) in mid-1950s. Chitta Ranjan helped many alternative groups of social action and co-reali…
Rethinking the Human and the Social: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations
Our understanding of the human and the social, as well as our realization of these, are in need of fundamental transformations, as our present day use of these are deeply anthropocentric, Eurocentric and dualistic. Human development discourse looks at the human in an adjectival way, so does the social quality approach to the category of the social: neither reflects the profound rethinking both the categories have gone through even in the Western …
Cultivating transformative reconciliation and striving for peace: Compassion, confrontation and a new art of integration
Sociology and Beyond: Cultivating an Ontological Epistemology of Participation
Sociology and Beyond: The Limits of Loyalty
Sociology and Beyond
A New Global Humanity and the Calling of a Post-colonial Cosmopolis: Self-development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations
The discourse and practice of humanism is at a cross-road, now challenged by posthuman reflections on what it means to be human. Our understanding of human and humanism is also challenged by transformations in nation-state and citizenship. In this context, the present article explores pathways of a new global humanity emerging out of cross-cultural reflections and new intellectual and social movements
Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development
There is an epochal need for sociology to enter into planetary conversations to overcome what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like firepower of Western sociology.The theme of civil society can be a very promising starting point for such a transcivilizational dialogue.Civil society, like much social theory, suffers from an a priori binding to what can be called a post-traditional telos, which in fact has been turned into a post-traditional theology.But…
Beyond West and East: Co-evolution and the calling of a new enlightenment and non-duality
The calling of a creative transdisciplinarity
Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative experiments and the critiques of modernity
■ Modern modes of inquiry into the human condition have been charac terized by a disciplinary mode - we make sense of the world through particular, specialized and bounded disciplines. But if the rigid boundaries between disci plines have characterized the triumphant moment of the modern world, the recent moment has shown us a different picture where the rigid boundaries between disciplines are slowly breaking down and where we find more fluidity…
Rethinking the Human and the Social: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations
Our understanding of the human and the social, as well as our realization of these, are in need of fundamental transformations, as our present day use of these are deeply anthropocentric, Eurocentric and dualistic. Human development discourse looks at the human in an adjectival way, so does the social quality approach to the category of the social: neither reflects the profound rethinking both the categories have gone through even in the Western …
Cosmopolitanism and Beyond: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations
A revival of cosmopolitanism seems to be underway in both discourse and practice. However, much of this revival draws from only one trajectory of cosmopolitanism, and fails to build upon different traditions of cosmopolitan thinking and experimentation. Cosmopolitanization is an ongoing process of critique, creativity and border-crossing which involves transformations in self, culture, society, economy and polity. It requires multi-dimensional pr…
Knowledge and Human Liberation: Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
Knowledge and human liberation are epochal challenges and a key question here is what the meaning of knowledge and the meaning of human liberation are. This article argues that knowledge means not only knowledge of self, society and nature as conceived within the predominant dualistic logic of modernity but also knowledge of transcendental self beyond sociological role playing, knowledge of nature beyond anthropocentric reduction and control, and…
Social quality based on ecotourism and creative economy in a language tourism village in Indonesia
Language Tourism Villages have the potential to be developed in areas of cultural diversity, ecotourism activities, and the creative economy. Local wisdom and cultural events can enhance the creativity of a community and give economic value to rural communities. This research aims to describe how the synergy between ecotourism and the creative economy improves social quality. The data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and fo…
Rethinking the Politics and Ethics of Consumption: Dialogues with the Swadeshi Movements and Gandhi
This article attempts to create the space for rethinking the politics and ethics of consumption by initiating dialogues with Swadeshi movements and Gandhi in order to transform the spaces ofproduction transcending the concern for consumption choices. Analysing the history of Swadeshi movements in pre-independence India, especially Bengal, and drawing inspiration from Gandhi 's Swadeshi movement and his principles of swaraj and satyagraha, an atte…
With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South: Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Calling of Planetary Realisations
Our contemporary moment is a moment of crisis of epistemology as a part of the wider and deeper crisis of modernity and the human condition. The crisis of epistemology emerges from the limits of the epistemic as it is tied to epistemology of procedural certainty and closure. The crisis of epistemology also reflects the limits of epistemology closed within the Euro-American universe of discourse. It is in this context that the present essay discus…
Lifeworlds and Living Words
Lifeworld is a multi-dimensional concept and reality in philosophy, social sciences and in our practice of living. The present essay explores its different meanings and interpretations starting from Edmund Husserl to Jurgen Habermas in the European intellectual tradition and Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, J.N. Mohanty and Margaret Chatterjee in the Indic traditions. It rethinks the Habermasian idea of colonisation of the lifeworld and argues how …
Sociology and Beyond: The Limits of Loyalty
Sociology and Beyond
A New Global Humanity and the Calling of a Post-colonial Cosmopolis: Self-development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations
The discourse and practice of humanism is at a cross-road, now challenged by posthuman reflections on what it means to be human. Our understanding of human and humanism is also challenged by transformations in nation-state and citizenship. In this context, the present article explores pathways of a new global humanity emerging out of cross-cultural reflections and new intellectual and social movements
Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development
There is an epochal need for sociology to enter into planetary conversations to overcome what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like firepower of Western sociology.The theme of civil society can be a very promising starting point for such a transcivilizational dialogue.Civil society, like much social theory, suffers from an a priori binding to what can be called a post-traditional telos, which in fact has been turned into a post-traditional theology.But…
Power and Self-Cultivation: Aesthetics, Development Ethics and the Calling of Poverty
Spiritual Cultivation for a Secular Society
The project of building a rationalistic self and secular society was an important part of the project of modernity, and this project is now confronted with an epochal crisis. The modernist conception of secular self, society and public sphere is now under siege, locally as well as globally, which in turn calls for a broadened conception of self, civil society and secularism. Taking the debates about the crisis of secularism in contemporary India …
Gandhi, Tagore and a New Ethics of Argumentation
Discourse, dialogue and deliberation are important frames for thinking about and creating an ideal inter- subjective condition and a dignified society at present. This article presents the contours of such a new ethics of argumentation by carrying out a detailed discussion of the relationship between Gandhi and Tagore, and the way they argued with each other. Their arguments and counter-arguments were not for the sake of win ning any egotistic vi…
Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics
L'A. s'interroge sur les limites des politiques identitaires, qui tendent a perdre leur caractere d'emancipation (travail de dialectique) au profit d'attitudes fondamentalistes et defensives, basees sur le rejet de la difference de l'autre (identification projective)
Well-being of Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation
L'A. etudie le lien entre justice, bien-etre institutionnel et changement social. Il presente la theorie des institutions d'Andre Beteille. Il analyse la relation entre justice et egalite. Il estime que la theorie de Beteille ne permet pas de comprendre les defis auxquels sont confrontees les institutions en matiere de changement social
Universities and the horizons of the future
Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about self and society. In this contemporary context of epochal change and challenge reflection is also taking place on the nature of universities. Serious commentators in this field such as former Harvard president Derek Bok tells us …
Narratives of creative transformation: Constituting critical movements in contemporary American culture
Narratives of creative transformation: Constituting critical movements in contemporary American culture
Understanding contemporary social movements
The dialectic between globalization and localization: Economic restructuring, women and strategies of cultural reproduction
Universities and the horizons of the future
Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about self and society. In this contemporary context of epochal change and challenge reflection is also taking place on the nature of universities. Serious commentators in this field such as former Harvard president Derek Bok tells us …
Management Education and the Teaching of Ethics: Pedagogy, Practice and the Challenge of a New Initiative
This paper examines the issue of teaching of ethics in management education with specific reference to the debate on this and pedagogic interventions in India and the United States. It describes, among others, the initiative taken at Harvard Business School to teach ethics to MBA students as well as the effort made by the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta to teach ethics and human values to the students. It is argued that all these pedagog…
Moral consciousness and communicative action: From discourse ethics to spiritual transformation
This article strives to make a critical assessment of the claim of discourse ethics, as articulated by Jürgen Habermas, to meet with the challenges of moral consciousness and communicative action today. The article locates Habermas' theory of discourse ethics in the contemporary movement to remoralize institutions and to build a post-conventional moral theory. It describes Habermas' agenda and looks into incoherences in his project in accordance …
Well-being of Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation
L'A. etudie le lien entre justice, bien-etre institutionnel et changement social. Il presente la theorie des institutions d'Andre Beteille. Il analyse la relation entre justice et egalite. Il estime que la theorie de Beteille ne permet pas de comprendre les defis auxquels sont confrontees les institutions en matiere de changement social
Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative experiments and the critiques of modernity
■ Modern modes of inquiry into the human condition have been charac terized by a disciplinary mode - we make sense of the world through particular, specialized and bounded disciplines. But if the rigid boundaries between disci plines have characterized the triumphant moment of the modern world, the recent moment has shown us a different picture where the rigid boundaries between disciplines are slowly breaking down and where we find more fluidity…
Gandhi, Tagore and a New Ethics of Argumentation
Discourse, dialogue and deliberation are important frames for thinking about and creating an ideal inter- subjective condition and a dignified society at present. This article presents the contours of such a new ethics of argumentation by carrying out a detailed discussion of the relationship between Gandhi and Tagore, and the way they argued with each other. Their arguments and counter-arguments were not for the sake of win ning any egotistic vi…
Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics
L'A. s'interroge sur les limites des politiques identitaires, qui tendent a perdre leur caractere d'emancipation (travail de dialectique) au profit d'attitudes fondamentalistes et defensives, basees sur le rejet de la difference de l'autre (identification projective)
The calling of a creative transdisciplinarity
Audited accountability and the imperative of responsibility
The reflective spiral of the reciprocal observation of the other’s self-observations does not escape the circle in which both external observation and self-observation are always a system’s own observation; it does not penetrate the darkness of mutual opacity.... Luhmann’s depiction of the self-legitimation of a politics anchored in a state apparatus begins to fall apart if systems theory is confronted with the task of ‘conceiving the theory of t…
A Moral Critique of Development: Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility
Rethinking the Politics and Ethics of Consumption: Dialogues with the Swadeshi Movements and Gandhi
This article attempts to create the space for rethinking the politics and ethics of consumption by initiating dialogues with Swadeshi movements and Gandhi in order to transform the spaces ofproduction transcending the concern for consumption choices. Analysing the history of Swadeshi movements in pre-independence India, especially Bengal, and drawing inspiration from Gandhi 's Swadeshi movement and his principles of swaraj and satyagraha, an atte…
Reflections and Mobilisations: Development as Global Responsibility
Development has been subjected to deconstructive critiques as well as reconstructive formulations in which both critical reflections and mobilisations have played an important role. Yet scholars and activists rarely engege themselves simultaneously with both. This paper pleads for such an engagement, interrogating, broadening and deepening the very categories themselves. It urges us to realise that, while critical reflections suffer from narrow E…
Knowledge and Human Liberation: Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
Knowledge and human liberation are epochal challenges and a key question here is what the meaning of knowledge and the meaning of human liberation are. This article argues that knowledge means not only knowledge of self, society and nature as conceived within the predominant dualistic logic of modernity but also knowledge of transcendental self beyond sociological role playing, knowledge of nature beyond anthropocentric reduction and control, and…
Power and Self-Cultivation: Aesthetics, Development Ethics and the Calling of Poverty
Spiritual Cultivation for a Secular Society
The project of building a rationalistic self and secular society was an important part of the project of modernity, and this project is now confronted with an epochal crisis. The modernist conception of secular self, society and public sphere is now under siege, locally as well as globally, which in turn calls for a broadened conception of self, civil society and secularism. Taking the debates about the crisis of secularism in contemporary India …
Towards a New Mutuality
The evolution of moral understanding – Hallpike, C.R
Cosmopolitanism and Beyond: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations
A revival of cosmopolitanism seems to be underway in both discourse and practice. However, much of this revival draws from only one trajectory of cosmopolitanism, and fails to build upon different traditions of cosmopolitan thinking and experimentation. Cosmopolitanization is an ongoing process of critique, creativity and border-crossing which involves transformations in self, culture, society, economy and polity. It requires multi-dimensional pr…
Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and Methods and the Calling of an Ontological Epistemology of Participation
Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development
There is an epochal need for sociology to enter into planetary conversations to overcome what Ulrich Beck calls the Nato-like firepower of Western sociology.The theme of civil society can be a very promising starting point for such a transcivilizational dialogue.Civil society, like much social theory, suffers from an a priori binding to what can be called a post-traditional telos, which in fact has been turned into a post-traditional theology.But…
Beyond West and East: Co-evolution and the calling of a new enlightenment and non-duality
Sociology and Beyond: Cultivating an Ontological Epistemology of Participation
Sociology (45 works) · Philosophy (34 works) · Political science (32 works) · Law (29 works) · Epistemology (28 works) · Philosophy (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Social science (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Environmental ethics (15 works)