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Ananta is currently Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has worked and taught in many universities in India and other countries including University of Kentucky, USA; Aalborg University, Denmark and University of Freiburg, Germany. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformations, theories of self, culture and society, and ethics in management and development.
Ananta has written numerous books in Oriya and English. He has just written the draft of a book, “Learning the Art of Wholeness: Integral Education and Beyond”. He is also working on the following edited volumes: “Critical Social Theory and Asian Dialogues”, “Philosophy and Anthropology: Border-Crossing and Transformations”, “New Horizons of Human Development, Practical Spirituality and Human Development”, “Hearts of Unfolding Rainbows: The Discourse and Practice of Child-Centered Education in a Comparative Global Perspective”, and “Cosmopolitanism and Beyond: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations”.
In addition, Ananta is the editor of “Creative Multiverse: New Explorations in Transformative Learning and Research”, a book series from Shipra Publications, New Delhi. There is an epochal challenge of learning from multiple experiments in self and social transformations now. Creative Multiverse seeks to explore and present different pathways of transformations in societies and histories around the world. It builds upon engagements in learning in different disciplines of life and academy and seeks to create a transdisciplinary space of research, dialogues and transformations. Ananta is as well Associate Editor of “Asian Journal of Social Sciences” and of “Journal of Research Practice: Innovations and Challenges in Multiple Domains”.
Ananta is also carrying out a project on global responsibility studying emerging movements in both trans-civilizational dialogues as well as global justice.
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