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Ecofeminist philosophy
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Warren, Karen <1947->

Ecofeminist philosophy : a western perspective on what it is and why it matters / Karen J. Warren.

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy

Monocultures of the mind
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Shiva, Vandana.

Monocultures of the mind : perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology / Vandana Shiva.

Penang, Malaysia : Third World Network, c1993.

Abstract: 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. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.

Ecofeminism
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Mies, Maria,

Ecofeminism / Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva ; with a foreword by Ariel Salleh.

London ; New York : Zed Books 2014

Special Collection - Zed Books

Abstract: 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 women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Should women see a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of Nature in the name of profit and progress? How can they counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements? Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva offer a thought-provoking analysis of these and many other issues from a unique North-South perspective. They critique prevailing economic theories, conventional concepts of women's emancipation, the myth of "catching up" development, the philosophical foundations of modern science and technology, and the omission of ethics when discussing so many questions including advances in reproductive technology as well as biotechnology. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, these two internationally respected feminists and environmental activists look to the potential of movements advocating consumer liberation and subsistence production, sustainability and regeneration; and they argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity, and a rejection of exploitation, the endless commoditization of needs, and violence.