UNESCO Expert Rahul Goswami: Neo-Colonialism, Corporatism, & Multilateral Globalism (Part 1)

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First published at 01:24 UTC on December 4th, 2021.

In this video, I interview Rahul Goswami, who is a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) expert on intangible cultural heritage in Asia; a former adviser to the Centre on Environment Education under the Indian government's Ministry of Environment; and a former adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture Programme on traditional methods of cultivation. He has studied and researched traditional knowledge for about 30 years.

During this first half of this interview, Goswami explains how the Cultural sector of UNESCO defines "intangible cultural heritage," or "traditional knowledge." He also breaks down how UNESCO sets up and manages programs with national governments, often with the help of public-private partnerships with corporate foundations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In addition, he details the ways in which UNESCO projects dovetail with programs from other UN branches, including the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), along with other global governance institutions, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF). Furthermore, he historicizes how the the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) evolved into the UN's current Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which provide common policy objectives that centralize the global partnerships between these multilateral institutions.

In Goswami's analysis, this battery of multilateral organizations constitutes a system of neo-colonial globalization that facilitates the corporatization, and commodification of traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures. He expands on how this multilateral system results in the technocratic industrialization of traditional agricultural, medical, and educational practices, which are thereby restructured to facilitate mass-production and consumerism for global markets.

We also discuss how the UNESCO Global Education Coalition is corporatizing national education system across the world through public-private partnerships with Big Tech companies, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Google.

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https://en.unesco.org/news/rahul-goswami-intangible-cultural-heritage-our-changing-world

https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/06/21/cultures-silent-exiles/

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-06-10/resilience-reflections-with-rahul-goswami/

https://www.indicasoftpower.com/traditional-knowledge-key-to-conservation/

https://ichworldforum.org/forum-home/#Session%202

https://ichlinks.com/archive/materials/videosV.do?nation=&ichDataUid=13850265479399426886

Rahul Goswami's email: [email protected]

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