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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... knowledge systems throughout the world , which have been con- quered through the politics of disappearance , not the politics of debate and dialogue . The disappearance of local knowledge through its interaction with the dominant ...
... knowledge systems and by simultane- ously excluding other knowledge systems from the domain of reliable and systematic knowledge , the dominant system creates its exclusive monopoly . Paradoxically , it is the knowledge systems which ...
... knowledge sys- tem are inconsistent with equality and justice . It is disrupt- ing of cohesion within local communities and polarises society ... knowledge such Comparison of Local and Dominant Knowledge Systems ( 60 Monocultures of the Mind.
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 |