Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and BiotechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 1993 - 184 pages Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. |
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... South . This polarity and dualism underlies the basic shortcomings of the book , which could more honestly have been titled ' The North Conserving the South's Biological Diversity ' . It is of course true that the tropics are the cradle ...
... South imbalance and to recognise the contributions of local communities to the development of biodiversity , it is imperative that the regime based on bio - imperi- alism be replaced by structures based on biodemocracy . Gandhi has ...
... South are aggravated by the fact that the governments of the South want access to the new technologies of the North . In their haste to get access to the new biotechnologies , the Southern governments could unwittingly place themselves ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva Limited preview - 1993 |
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva No preview available - 2011 |