Alternative Imaginations: Non-ness without Nonsense

Slide 1:NON-NESS WITHOUT NONSENSE Alternative Imaginations Research Cluster Nalini Chhetri, Netra Chhetri, Merlyna Lim, Farzad Mahootian Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes Arizona State University

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Slide 3:Despite the recognition that science, technology and globalization are the major formative trends of the 21st century, there is a dearth of coursework and scholarship at ASU that addresses the socio-cultural impact of science and technology from the perspective of non-western cultures and nations.

Slide 4:Ironically, those who could best facilitate a robust and systematic understanding of such impacts are sometimes resistant to the western scientific-technological approach because they perceive its bias, its exclusion of non-wester