About this title: Vandana Shiva shows how Western powers, following in the footsteps of Columbus, are using patenting and genetic engineering to re-colonize the Third World. Denying the value of indigenous knowledge developed over many generations, the West is attempting to colonize life itself. She argues that we must struggle to protect biological and cultural diversity, and that this will best be brought about by our developing and supporting self-organized communities based on decentralization, local democratic control of resources, social justice and peace.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in good condition, it has some highlights throughout but no torn or missing pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 148 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: Very Good. Light wear to the extremities, contents tight and clean Nice, tight, clean copy. All items ship from Gig Harbor, Wa within 24 hrs! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: South End Press, Boston
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Possibly unread. Bright and clean text, binding good, sturdy. Minor wear to cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 148 p. Audience: General/trade. Contains bibliography, index. read more
Description: South End Press, Boston, 1998; Softcover; 2nd Printing; 148pp; Clean, tight copy, Fine cond. Traces European colonization of native people to the present appropriation of natural resources. read more
Description: Fine. 0896085554 South End Press trade paperback, 1998, immaculate, No marks/creases or defects...FINE (like new)....Not a RUINED remainder or ex-lib JUNK. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: South End Pr, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: Fine. 5.5 x 8.5 trade paperback book. Light green and orange lettering on the purple and illustrated spine and cover. With her characteristic blend of analysis and passion, Vandana Shiva traces the continuity from the European colonization of "native" peoples, to the present appropriation of the natural resources they need for their physical and cultural survival. 148 pages. Tight binding. Fine condition. read more
Description: Acceptable. Back cover is bent. Book is ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: Good. This is a used book in good condition with normal wear and tear and may contain some writing, minor shelf wear and creases. Items are uploaded via ISBN and stock photo may be different from actual book cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Green Books
Date Published: 30/09/1998
ISBN-13:9781870098748ISBN:1870098749
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1997-03
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: Very Good. 1997 4th Printing South End Press (Cambridge, MA) Trade Paperback; text clean/UNMARKED; color cover minor surface rubbing/edges + corners smooth w/ever-so-slight curling; spine strong + uncreased; NOT x-library; No remainder mark; Not book club; 148 pages + 4 preliminary pgs; introduction; 7 chapters; footnotes; index; author biography w/b+w photograph; wrap-around color cover design by Beth Fortune; "w/characteristic blend of analysis + passion, Shiva traces the continuity from ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Published by South End Press, , Boston
Date Published: , 1997
ISBN-13:9780896085558ISBN:0896085554
Description: , book is in very good condition. Paperback. 148 pages, notes and index at rear. 22 x 14 cm. read more
Description: Good. 0896085562 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"Next time some moron claims that you're just a dumb kid wanting to riot and don't know a thing about the WTO, IMF, or how great transnational corporations really are, take out this book and whap them upside the head! Well, it is kind of thin, so grab Ecofeminism instead, and then whap! away!
Shiva, here, breaks down Western reductionist views of women and nature and describes how this view enables the West to plunder the "third world" and appropriate indigenous knowledge--then claim patents and intellectual property rights. How international institutions and governments promote this theft and abuse. After pushing people, like in India, off their land in the name of the "Green Revolution" (read: monocultural industrial agriculture benefitting investors and wealthy land owners), Capital now wants to take people's traditional knowledge and sell it. Essential reading."
""Biopiracy is the Columbian 'discovery' 500 years after Columbus. Patents are still the means to protect this piracy of the wealth of non-Western peoples as a right of Western powers" (5). Patents on life, genetic engineering, and Intellectual Property Rights, are the biopirates' - Cargill, Monsanto, the WTO, Western governments, etc - hooks, swashbuckles. Vandana Shiva does not provide this comparison, but she does create elaborate arguments on why these tools of transnational corporations, international institutions, and national ones are destroying diversity, community commons, and life."
"If you are interested, or better yet, concerned about what lab science means for the freedom of nature, read this. Shiva is definitely a great source on the subject and does a beautiful job of interrelating the feminist struggle with the subjugation of our earth.
Unfortunately, as it happens with many works of such political controversy, Shiva may just be preaching to the choir. And her anti-genetic engineering sentiments may come off as purely being anti-molecular biology. So the message may be lost on those who perhaps would do best to listen to her."
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