From contextualization to universalization: Accelerating the knowledge production lifecycle for theoretical sciences in the twenty-first century

Description

A great deal of literature has indeed been published about the research lifecycle in modern and
contemporary times particularly over the past couple of decades beginning from the 1980’s or so; it also
goes without saying that the quantum of such output has been greatly amplified since the dawn of the
twenty-first; likewise, a great deal has also been written about product development lifecycles, and
technology lifecycles, and all these concepts have been approaches from multiple points of view, and
from multiple perspectives. However, we consider all these to be highly inadequate and grossly deficient
on two grounds, because they do not cover the end to end process from contextualization of knowledge
to communication and universalization or ubiquitization of knowledge, but they are also innately and
inherently biased towards commercializable products and practical technology, not the knowledge
creation process itself which is so essential to the escalation of scientific and cultural activity. They must
also be naturally be branded as Eurocentric given the fact that much of the knowledge production
processes, particularly in the social sciences have been centered around the western hemisphere, with
minimal to no tangible outputs from other parts of the world. This is because the west has thus far ruled
the roost in theoretical and conceptual knowledge in all facets of human knowledge, but particularly in
various fields of what people consider to be the social sciences. It is there highly naturally and highly
obvious that multiple data sets were not adequately considered or considered at all in the process of
theorization or theory formulation and generation...........................

About the Author

Sujay Rao Mandavilli is an IT professional (Governance Risk and Compliance) (Still practising as of 2025; Served major clients such as Tata Group, Mahindra Group, NECAM, Verizon and BAT, and also previously worked in IBM) and a born-again Anthropologist, researcher, and post-colonial thinker and theorist with major contributions to various fields of Anthropology and Social Sciences. He completed his Masters in Anthropology from the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India in 2020 with a first class, and with specializations in ethnography and environmental anthropology. He has made major contributions to Anthropological Economics, the Sociology of Science, theories of socio-cultural change, Identity theory, population studies, Historiography, language dynamics, Indo-European studies, the Aryan Problem, and the identity of the Harappans. He has also contributed greatly to scientific method, and the philosophy of science with a large number of publications on the philosophy of science and scientific method. His hypothesis is that most fields of Social sciences which are based on a study on social and cultural variables, are based on old Eurocentric paradigms, based on the European or American experience, (examples being Europeans studying exotic cultures and consumption-driven economic models) and that better theories can only come from intellectual multipolarity, and Ethnographic data collected from different parts of the world. He believes this will lead to better scientific research, and greatly boost scientific output in different parts of the world that have hitherto lagged behind the West in scientific research. He has also attempted to synthesize Anthropological theory with other fields of Social Sciences such as Economics and Pedagogy, generating several new paradigms as a result. He strongly believes that the ‘Globalization of Science’, with a particular emphasis on the social sciences, must become one of the major movements of the Twenty-first century. He has called for an "Indian Enlightenment" as well as similar renaissances in the developing world through a horizontal collaboration among developing nations. He has also called for the replacement of old-school intellectualism, with contemporary intellectualism, while keeping religious forces at bay. He has published over one hundred and twenty core research papers, and ten books. All papers have again been republished through Social Sciences Research Network or SSRN, SocArXiv, and many through other forums, and publishers. He is the Founder-Director of the Institute for the Study of the Globalization of Science (ISGOS) (Registered in India as the Globalization of Science Trust) which is has already started empaneling a group of researchers and scientists to plan its next course of action. In 2023, he launched the "Scholars and intellectuals for mankind" (SCHIMA) forum, which is reaching out to scholars and intellectuals from throughout the world to draft a common agenda. In 2024, he launched the "Movement for open, transparent, high-quality and ideology-free science" (MOTHIS), the "Movement for the re-orientation of economic studies (MORES), and the "Think tank for research on rationalizing and modernizing pedagogy" (TH-RAMP) and Think tank for accelerating the rate of progress in foundational science (TH-ARPIFS), riding piggyback on his large number of publications on scientific method and other topics. In 2024, he also created the blog and the video channel "Abhilasha: This is not Utopia" to discuss burning and pressing issues of the day, particularly in relation to science, knowledge and society. In 2025, he launched the Mandavilli foundation to provide cash-free awards to social science researchers from developing countries who actively engage in globalization of science pursuits. He also launched a scholarship to Ph.D researchers in India whose primary thesis deals with globalization of science in the humanities. He also writes “social and scientific poetry” in order to contribute to the globalization of science movement, albeit humorously.

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