Vandana Shiva: 18 books
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated...
Terra ha i suoi diritti
La mia lotta di donna per un mondo più giusto
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Si parte dalla sua India e si approda in Italia. Poi si incontrano gli agricoltori d’Africa, le lobby pro-Ogm a Bruxelles, le questioni dell’agrobusiness in America Latina, le lotte delle contadine indiane... Quello che Vandana Shiva ci fa fare in questo libro è un doppio viaggio: il primo intorno...
Vandana Shiva
Die Kontrolle von Konzernen über das Leben (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 012)
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Die indische Physikerin und Aktivistin Vandana Shiva (*1952) legt anhand nüchtern präsentierter Fakten dar, wie Konzerne die Kontrolle über unser Leben erlangen. Die Patentierung von Leben - von Bakterien über Pflanzen bis hin zu Klontieren mit bestimmten genetischen Eigenschaften - führt zu...
Jenseits des Wachstums
Warum wir mit der Erde Frieden schließen müssen
Language: German
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Im 21. Jahrhundert plündert eine dem grenzenlosen Wachstum verpflichtete globalisierte Wirtschaft die Erde und ihre Ressourcen in schier unersättlicher Weise: Weltweit werden Wälder, Wasser, fruchtbare Böden und Saatgut einer radikalen Marktlogik folgend patentiert, privatisiert, ausverkauft....
India Divided
Diversity and Democracy Under Attack
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In India Divided, environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization,...
Who Really Feeds the World?
The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Debunking the notion that our current food crisis must be addressed through industrial agriculture and genetic modification, author and activist Vandana Shiva argues that those forces are in fact the ones responsible for the hunger problem in the first place. Who Really Feeds the World? is a powerful...
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power and shows its devastating environmental impact.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control...
Soil Not Oil
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva explains 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, Shiva champions the small, independent farm: their greater productivity, their...
Earth Democracy
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international...
Staying Alive
Women, Ecology, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the...
Water Wars
Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis “the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.” She sheds light on the activists...
Biopiracy
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are “the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized,” according to renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. The resistance to this biopiracy, she argues, is the struggle...
The Violence of the Green Revolution
Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement -- unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes...
by Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Two of Zed's best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of...
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