Professional Documents
Culture Documents
11. “’Prophet’ Looking for a Nineteenth Century Future” Social Epistemology Vol.
19, No. 1, Month, 2005, pp. 111–127
12. "Cultural Imperialism: A Short History, Future and a Post Script from the Present"
in Cultural Imperialism: essays on the political economy of cultural domination /
edited by Bernd Hamm and Russell Smandych. Peterborough, Broadview Press,
2005. pp 33-52
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14. “Buddhist Foundational Approaches in Bioethics”, Journal of Buddhist Studies
Centre of Buddhist Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Volume 2, January 2004 pp 117 -
135
16. “Knowledge, Science and Technology and the West-East Transition” in Peter
D.Hershock, Marietta Stepaniants, Roger T.Ames (eds) Technology And Cultural
Venues: On The Edge Of The Third Millennium University Of Hawaii Press 2003
pp 46-69
17. “Non-western Science – Mining civilizational knowledge” in Kevin Rosner (ed)
The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS UNESCO Paris 2004
18. “Science and Technology: Struggles without Political Support” Irfan Habib and
Raina Dhruv (eds) History of Humanity, UNESCO Paris (2004)
19. “’Buddhist Protestantism’: The Reverse Flow of Ideas from Sri Lanka to the
West” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka New Series Vol. XLV
2002 pp 35-71
20. "The Merged Evolution of Culture, Genes and Artefact" in Michael Wheeler,
John Ziman, and Maggie Boden (co-editors) The Evolution of Cultural Entities
The British Academy 2002
22. Humanity Three Thousand Symposium No. 1 Proceedings, Volume 1 and Volume
11 Seattle, Washington USA August 12-16-2000
23. “Modern physics bears the imprint of Western and Asian philosophies”,
Millennium Essay Nature 25 May 2000, Vol. 405 issue no. 6785
25. “’Communities’ And Communications in The New Millennium” in The Quest for
a Unified Theory of Information Edited by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Amsterdam:
Gordon and Breach, 1999
26. “De-Westernising Futures Studies” in Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of
Futures Studies Ziauddin Sardar (ed) Adamantine Press Limited, 21st Century
Series, Twickenham 1999 pp 72 – 83
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27. “A post-European century in science”, Futures 31 (9-10) (1999) pp. 923-927
29. “East and West: India in the Transmission of Knowledge from East to West”
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non
Western Cultures, Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordecht/Boston/London 1997
pp 266-270
30. “A Search for New Psychologies” Sri Lanka Journal Of Buddhist Studies
Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka Volume V, 1996 pp 131 - 165
33. “The Wandering Self: Between Cultural Localization and Globalization” in The
34. “Asian Science and Technology on a New Century's Doorstep” Philosophy &
Social Action 1994
36. “New Technologies and the Global Social System'” in World Social Report 1993,
United Nations, New York
38. “The Wandering Self: Between Cultural Localization and Globalization” The
Decolonization of Imagination: Culture, Knowledge and Power, Jan Nederveen
Pieterse and Bhikhu Parekh (eds) Zed Press 1993
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39. “Information Dynamics: A New Perspective for the Biological, Cultural and
Environmental Crisis” in Ubiratan D'ambrasio and Vladislav Kotchekov (eds)
Towards Ecoethics UNESCO Paris 1993 pp 52-60
40. "The New Technologies and the 'End of History'" Futures Research Quarterly
Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 1993 pp 71-93
41. “Growing the tree of knowledge” Ecodecision Environment and Policy
Magazine The Royal Society of Canada No. 9 June/July 1993 pp 48-53
42. “The Freedom to Imagine" Futures Vol. 25, Number 4, May 1993
43. “Future of Asian Cultures : Between Localization and Globalization” in
Eleonora Barbieri and Yogesh Atal (eds) Perspectives on Asia's Futures: the
Futures of Asian Cultures pp 131 – 158 Social and Human Sciences in Asia and
the Pacific RUSHSAP Series of Monographs 1993 Bangkok, Thailand
45. “The Historical Geopolitics of Knowledge” Science Studies Vol 6 No.2 1993 pp
48-61
46. "The lessons from Asia: From Past Experience to the Future" in Goonatilake et al
49. “Biotechnology and the Merged Evolution of Genes and Culture” Journal Of
Social and Evolutionary Systems Vol. 15, No.3, 1992
51. “The Voyages of Discovery and the Loss and Re-discovery of 'others'' Knowledge'
Impact of Science and Society, UNESCO 1992, Paris, Volume 42, Number 3
53. “The Science System in Sri Lanka” in A. Rahman Science and Technology in the
Indian Subcontinent, Longmanns, London, 1990
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54. "Max Weber's Social Construction of Buddhism" in Contemporary social issues :
essays in honour of Prof. P.K.B. Nayar edited by Jacob John Kattakayam. (Prof.
P.K.B. Nayar Farewell, Committee, Department of Sociology, University of
Kerala, Trivandrum 1990).
55. “A Science and Technology Project for our Times”, in N.P. Gupta (ed), Science,
Technology and Development, World Federation of Scientific Workers, New
Delhi, 1989
56. 'A Project for our Times', in Ziauddin Sardar ed. The Revenge of Athena: Science,
Exploitation & the Third World, Mansell Publishing Limited, London 1989
57. "The Son, the Father, and the Holy Ghosts." Economic and Political Weekly, 5
August,1768-69. 1989
58. “Information Flow Lines and Self Organisation in Gene, Culture and xosomatic
Devices”, Symposium on Mind and Knowledge, Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka,
Peradeniya, in Marga, Vol.9, No.2, 1988
61. Technological Change, Work Organisation and Pay: Lessons from Asia
International Labour Office, Geneva, 1988.
63. A Report on the Inputs into Science in Sri Lanka, (co-authored with S. Liyanage
and M.A.T. de Silva), Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, 1987
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67. “Evolution of Information” in Special issue “The Evolution of the Capacity for
Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism and Cultural Selectionism” Current
Anthropology Vol. 27, No. 4 (Aug. – Oct., 1986) p 330-331
68. "Some Building Blocks in Architecture for the 21st century to fit the Ecology,
Economies and Social Psychology of Sri Lanka” Lanka in the 21st Century:
Future Perspectives, Architects Institute, Colombo, 1986
71. “Colonies and Scientific Expansion (and Contraction)”, in Review, Journal of the
Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY, Vol.V No.3, 1982
72. Science in the Centre and Science in the Periphery: Modes of Domination and
Modes of Imitation Third World Studies, University of Philippines, Diliman,
1982
74. "Food Culture and Human Rights" in Goonatilake et al (eds) Food as a Human
Right (United Nations University, Tokyo 1982)
75. “The Search for Indigenous Sciences: Review of Approaches”, Proceedings of the
Sri Lanka Association of the Advancement of Science, Annual Sessions, 1982
79. “Social and Cultural Factors in Energy Use: Production Modes and Energy Use in
Sri Lanka” in Mohan Munasinghe (ed) Energy in Sri Lanka, SLAAS, Colombo
1980 pp 484-90
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80. “Technology as a Social Gene”, Journal of Scientific Industrial Research, Vol.38,
New Delhi, July 1979
82. Establishment of a Managerial Civil Service in Sri Lanka, Asian and Pacific
Development Administration Centre Publications, Kuala Lumpur, 1979,
Mimeograph.
83. “Outsider Bias and Ethnocentricity: The Case of Gunnar Myrdal”, Sociological
Bulletin, Vol.27 No.1, New Delhi, March 1978
84. Tourism in Sri Lanka: The Mapping of International Inequalities and their
Internal Structural Effects Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill
University, Montreal, January 1978.
85. “Towards a Study of "Europology"', Proceedings of the Sri Lanka Association for
the Advancement of Science, Presidential Address, (Social Science) Annual
Sessions, December 1977
92. “Colonial Culture”, Social Scientist, Vol.4, No.5, Trivandrum, January 1976
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93. “Technology and the Social Context in Sri Lanka”, Engineer, Colombo,
Institution of Engineers, December 1975
95. “Administering Development in South Asia”, South Asian Review, London, April
1975
96. "Review of Literature in the last 20 years in Politics in Sri Lanka", South Asian
Review, London, February 1975
98. “Late Development Effect in technology and society” , (with a reply by Ron
Dore), Bulletin of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, February 1975
99. “Imperialism and Development Studies”, Race & Class, XVI, London, October
1974