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Democracy has not taken knowledge seriously in its cognitive and epistemic sense. A citizen is a consumer of knowledge but never a producer of it. This lecture attempts to look at the plurality of knowledge systems by coining the concept of ‘cognitive justice’ which can be understood as the right of different knowledge systems to co-exist so long as they add to the myth and livelihood of a society. Knowledge and democracy acquire a new reciprocity in this lecture.

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About the speaker

Shiv Visvanathan is currently Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He earlier taught at the Delhi School of Economics and at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. He held Visiting Professorships at Smith College, Stanford University, University of Arizona, University of London and Maastricht University. He is the author of four books
including Theatres of Democracy.