Multiversity -- Some Documents

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
email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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".