Kenan Malik

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kenan Malik
Occupation	Biologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 26, 1960(1960-01-26)
Age	64
Birthplace	Telangana
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Telangana
Horoscope	Aquarius

Kenan Malik Biography

Kenan Malik is one of the most popular and richest Biologist who was born on January 26, 1960 in Telangana, Telangana, United Kingdom. Kenan Malik (born 26 January 1960) is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism and race. These topics are core concerns in The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008).

Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (Oneworld, 2008) is a book focusing on the anti-enlightenment dichotomy of racial science and anti-racism and critiques both. Malik argues that racial scientists should be allowed to express their views publicly and be critiqued in the public domain, while also criticising censorship from traditional anti-racist organisations. Most of the book focuses on science and race, and whether race can tell us anything about humans – he argues for a third way. He argues that ‘race’ may be a poor man’s clue to many things like genetic disease in populations, but that this does not have anything to do with ‘race’ in and of itself. He also argues that ‘race’ may be an obvious indicator of populations of genetics within multi-ethnic countries, but it is not exclusive to ‘races’ as a whole.

In the final chapter of Man, Beast and Zombie, Malik laments what he sees as an increasing reluctance to view individual people as autonomous, rational, and competent agents, and a tendency to view them as damaged, weak, incapable, and possessing limited control over their fates. All this has both encouraged and been reinforced by what Malik sees as mechanistic accounts of human nature. It has been accompanied by a shift of emphasis from negative liberty to positive liberties and paternalistic protections, and by an acceptance of limits to human possibilities and a deference to “nature” – all in marked contrast to the spirit of Enlightenment humanism.

In discussing cognitive science and philosophy of mind, Malik concludes that each human being possesses “an extended mind”; a brain becomes a human mind only by its immersion in social relationships together with “other brains linked by language and culture.” (p. 331) Human meaning derives not from nature but from the language-linked social network of which we are part.” (p. 334) If we did succeed in creating a machine capable of participating in a human society like a human being, it would be human (334–35).

He has given lectures or seminars at a number of universities, including University of Cambridge (Department of Biological Anthropology); University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College, Blavatnik School of Government and the Department for Continuing Education); the Institute of Historical Research, London; Goldsmiths College, University of London (Department of Social Anthropology); University of Liverpool (Department of Politics); Nottingham Trent University; University of Newcastle (Department of Social Policy and Sociology); University of Oslo; and the European University Institute, Florence. In 2003, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is currently Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey.

Kenan Malik Net Worth

Kenan Malik is one of the richest Biologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kenan Malik 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the 1980s, he was associated with a number of Marxist organisations, including the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), and Big Flame. He stood as the RCP’s candidate in Birmingham Selly Oak in the general election in 1992, coming last out of six candidates with 84 votes (0.15%). He was also involved with anti-racist campaigns, including the Anti-Nazi League and East London Workers Against Racism. He helped organise street patrols in East London to protect Asian families against racist attacks and was a leading member of a number of campaigns against deportations and police brutality including the Newham 7 campaign, the Afia Begum Campaign Against Deportations, and the Colin Roach Campaign.

As well as being a presenter of Analysis on BBC Radio 4, he has also presented Night Waves, Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas magazine. Malik has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, including Disunited Kingdom (2003), Are Muslims Hated? (which was shortlisted for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award, in 2005), Let ‘Em All In (2005) and Britain’s Tribal Tensions (2006). Strange Fruit was longlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 2009.

Malik’s work contains a forthright defence of the values of the 18th-century Enlightenment, which he sees as having been distorted and misunderstood in more recent political and scientific thought. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010.

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Kenan Ranked on the list of most popular Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kenan Malik celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.