{"id":1059,"date":"2023-10-22T06:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T06:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2023-10-22T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T06:56:12","slug":"understanding-sarkar-the-indian-episteme-macrohistory-and-transformative-knowledge-by-sohail-inayatullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"“Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge”, by Sohail Inayatullah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge”, by Sohail Inayatullah<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(LINK)<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Publisher \u200f : \u200e\u00a0<\/span>Brill (2001)<\/span><\/p>\n

CONTENTS:<\/strong> Preliminary Material\u00a0 i\u2013v; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u00a0 vii\u2013viii; INTRODUCING SARKAR 1\u201332; THE EPISTEMIC BOUNDARIES 33\u201393; SARKAR’S CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY\u00a0 94\u2013138; SARKAR’S PROSE OF HISTORY\u00a0 139\u2013166;\u00a0 COMPARING SARKAR: THE VIEW FROM ALL AROUND\u00a0 167\u2013285;\u00a0 SITUATING SARKAR’S LAWS\u00a0 286\u2013322; A NEW DISCOURSE, A NEW FUTURE\u00a0 323\u2013331; APPENDICES\u00a0 333\u2013340; GLOSSARY\u00a0 341\u2013343;\u00a0 BIBLIOGRAPHY\u00a0 344\u2013353;\u00a0 ABOUT THE AUTHOR\u00a0 354; INDEX\u00a0 355\u2013366;\u00a0 INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE SOCIAL STUDIES 367<\/p>\n

Sohail Inayatullah takes us on a journey through Indian philosophy, grand theory and macrohistory. We understand and appreciate Indian theories of history, specifically cyclical and spiral theories of time. From other civilizations, we learn how seminal thinkers understood the stages and mechanisms of transformation. Ssu-Ma Chien, Ibn Khaldun, Giambattista Vico, George Wilhelm Friedrick Hegel, Oswald Spengler, Comte Pitirim Sorokin, and Michel Foucault are invited to a dialog on the nature of agency and structure, and the escape ways from the patterns of history.
\nBut the journey is centered on P.R. Sarkar, the controversial Indian philosopher, guru and activist. While Sarkar passed away in 1990, his work, his social movements, his vision of the future remains ever alive. Inayatullah brings us closer to the heart and head of this giant luminary. Through\u00a0Understanding Sarkar<\/i>, we gain insight into how knowledge can transform and liberate.<\/p>\n

Abo\"Sohailut the Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Sohail Inayatullah\u00a0<\/strong>\/s\u0259’he\u026al \u026ana\u026a\u028c’t\u028ala\/<\/a>, a political scientist, is the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for\u00a0Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. He is also a Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and an Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. From 2016 \u2013 2020 he was the UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at USIM, Malaysia. From 2001-2020, he was an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. From 2011-2014, he was Adjunct Professor at the Centre for policing, counterterrorism and intelligence, Macquarie University, Sydney. In 1999, he was the UNESCO Chair in European Studies at the University of Trier, Germany.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Professor Inayatullah was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. In 2010, he was awarded the Laurel award for all-time best futurist by the Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network. In March 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. He received his doctorate from the University of Hawaii in 1990. Inayatullah has lived in Islamabad, Pakistan; Bloomington, Indiana; Flushing, New York; Geneva, Switzerland; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Brisbane and Mooloolaba, Australia.<\/p>\n

Inayatullah is the Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0Journal of Futures Studies<\/em>\u00a0and on the editorial boards (or scientific advisor)\u00a0 of\u00a0Futures<\/em>,\u00a0Prout Journal<\/em>,\u00a0World Future Review<\/em>,\u00a0World Futures,<\/em>\u00a0Futuribles<\/em>, and\u00a0Foresight<\/em>. He has written more than 400 \u00a0journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine editorials. His articles have been translated into a variety of languages, including Catalan, Spanish, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Indonesian, Farsi, Arabic, and Mandarin. Inayatullah has also written and co-edited twenty-sux books\/cdroms, including:\u00a0CLA 3,0: Thirty Years of Transformative\u00a0<\/em>Research (with Ralph Mercer, Ivana Milojevic, and John A. Sweeney);\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0CLA 2.0: Transformative Research in Theory and Practice<\/em>\u00a0(2015, and Ivana Milojevi\u0107);\u00a0Questioning the Future: Methods and Tools for Organizational and Societal Transformation<\/em>\u00a0(2007);\u00a0Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1997 and Johan Galtung). His latest (2018) book include\u00a0Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions That Change Everything<\/a> (in English, Mandarin, and Korean and Lu Na), Futures Thinking and Foresight: Why Foresight Matters for Policy Makers (<\/em>Susann Roth) and Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond C0VID-19<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Ramos, Black and Sweeney). Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.metafuture.org\/about-us\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(LINK) “Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge”, by Sohail Inayatullah\u00a0\u00a0(LINK),\u00a0Publisher \u200f : \u200e\u00a0Brill (2001) CONTENTS: Preliminary Material\u00a0 i\u2013v; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u00a0 vii\u2013viii; INTRODUCING SARKAR 1\u201332; THE EPISTEMIC BOUNDARIES 33\u201393; SARKAR’S CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY\u00a0 94\u2013138; SARKAR’S PROSE OF HISTORY\u00a0 139\u2013166;\u00a0 COMPARING SARKAR: THE VIEW FROM ALL AROUND\u00a0 167\u2013285;\u00a0 SITUATING SARKAR’S LAWS\u00a0 286\u2013322; A NEW DISCOURSE, … Continue reading “Understanding Sarkar: The Indian Episteme, Macrohistory and Transformative Knowledge”, by Sohail Inayatullah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taochip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}