“shiva vandana ed”

This reader assembles some of the most important works from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. A distinguished cast of contributors presents much-needed frameworks for understanding and contextualising the debates on ... More

"In this volume, through case studies of forest conflicts and water conflicts in India, the authors have exposed the grim situation in a forceful and logical manner. Its logic does not remain confined to the Indian boundaries alone but extends to all over the world in general. . . . Dr. Vandana Shiv... More

A world-renowned environmental leader presents an expose of the privatizationof water that threatens the livelihood of the people in the South.While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The wa... More

Janet Reibstein's mother and two aunts grew up in New Jersey amid a close-knit, extended Jewish family set apart only by a genetic propensity for breast cancer. Over fifty years, the disease claims Janet's two aunts, then her mother, then a cousin. Finally Janet must face the far-reaching decision o... More

Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates ... More

Shiva exposes the "new colonies" in the North's assault on the South's biological resources -- the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals -- and convincingly argues that international agreements enable Northern capital to appropriate biodiversity from its original owners by defin... More

World-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva boldly confronts the neoconservative Project for the New American Century with her own plan, describing what Earth democracy "could" look like, and outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures, and living democrac... More

With "Soil Not Oil," Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary.Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiv... More

Shiva, "one of the world's most prominent radical scientists"("Ms. Magazine"), shows the effects of colonialism's creation of the schism between Hinduism and Islam; analyzes globalization's effects on India's resources; and proposes a new ideology called Earth Democracy that restores everyone's righ... More