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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... dominant political system faces dis- sent , it responds by making the dissidents disappear . The ' desparacidos ' or the disappeared dissidents share the fate of local knowledge systems throughout the world , which have been con- quered ...
... dominant system creates its exclusive monopoly . Paradoxically , it is the knowledge systems which are considered ... dominant system also makes alternatives disappear by erasing and destroying the reality which they attempt to represent ...
... dominant knowledge sys- tem are inconsistent with equality and justice . It is disrupt- ing of cohesion within local communities and polarises society into those with access and those without it , both in respect to the knowledge ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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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 |