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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... cultural system with a particular relationship to power . It has , however , been projected as above and beyond culture and politics . Its relation- ship with the project of economic development has been invisible ; and therefore it has ...
... cultures . The co - evolution of cultures , life forms and habitats has conserved the biological diversity on this planet . Cultural diversity and biological diversity go hand in hand . Communities everywhere in the world have developed ...
... cultural diversity and distinct civilisational and natural histories of our planet which have created diverse and distinctive cultures and ecosystems . Development in this view is taken as synonymous with the introduction of Western ...
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 |