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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... scientific knowledge was thought to be determined without social mediation . Scientists , in accordance with an abstract scientific method , were viewed as putting forward statements correspond- ing to the realities of a directly ...
... scientific rationality in modern cultures .... The project that science's sacredness makes taboo is the examination of science in just the ways any other institution or set of social practises can be examined.4 The Cracks of ...
... Scientific , Technical and Technological Advice 1. A subsidiary body for the provision of scientific , technical and technological advice is hereby established to provide the Conference of the Parties and , as appropriate , its other ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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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 |