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The Impact of Globalization on Women: Testing Vandana Shiva’s Critique of Development
Get PDFVandana Shiva argues that through the masculinization of agriculture globalization has turned nature and women into passive fields for sowing. Shiva’s critique that international trade, and globalization more generally, has undermined the social and economic position of women in less developed countries provides a wealth of testable hypotheses. For example, Shiva’s argument implies that gender earnings inequality is higher in countries that are more integrated into the world economy, ceteris paribus. After summarizing her argument, we test this hypothesis through cross-sectional regression analysis.Gender Earnings Inequality; Vandana Shiva; Kuznets Curve
The Vandana Shiva Reader
No full text“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 by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world’s most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty.
In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva’s research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry’s dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration.
This important volume illuminates Shiva’s profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.
Vandana Shiva is the director of Navdanya in India. A physicist, philosopher, and feminist, she is the author of more than twenty books and the recipient of more than twenty international awards.
The Vandana Shiva Reader provides an important East-West agrarian bridge connecting two of the world’s great democracies and their struggles with industrial agriculture as it drives out sustainable alternatives, destroying both ecosystems and human communities along the way. To read Dr. Shiva’s work is to feel the power of a fertile theoretical mind engaged in fierce and inspirational acts of resistance. Hers is a unique voice. -- Bill Vitek, coeditor of The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge
Vandana Shiva stands alone as an powerful critic of industrial agriculture. The clarity of her voice and the commitment of her life work are evident in this reader. There are few who match her tireless dedication to seeds and their life generating capacities. As this book shows, she is blazing a path toward healthy soil and food for future generations. -- Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University
Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among the economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity. -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Vandana Shiva has had an enormous impact on how we view the world around us; it is a hugely valuable service to have her key writings in one place for easy reference. Because we should refer to them often! -- Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
The Vandana Shiva Reader is a thought-provoking challenge to the notion that modern methods and technologies of farming are helping feed people around the world. -- Tennessee Library Associationhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_environmental_sciences/1004/thumbnail.jp
-hii: Modality meets exclusivity
No full textThis work examines the meaning of the Hindi particle ‘-hii’ and sheds new light on the link between modality and words like ‘only.’ Our two new judgment studies reveal that ‘-hii’ indicates exclusivity (like 'only,' and other similar lexical items) and also can associate with either the MIN or MAX of a scale of propositional alternatives. More specifically, the alternatives are ordered based on speaker conceptions of likelihood or of desirability, and which endpoint is felicitous with ‘-hii’ depends on which scale is made salient by the discourse context. Since existing analyses of 'only' and 'even' are insufficient for capturing the presuppositions of ‘-hii’ that are revealed by the experimental data, we draw on the recent theoretical literature on modality to map these ranking types of ‘-hii’ to epistemic, bouletic, and teleological modality types that form its core scalar felicity condition. Besides helping to formalize the varied types of speaker expectations needed by ‘-hii’, this move helps to explain some differences between the likelihood and desirability contexts' patterning of data in our experimental results.Paper presented at the Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC), March 20-22, 2015, and published in the Working Papers as part of the Proceedings of the 39th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference
"Pensar que podemos escapar de la naturaleza es una ilusión": entrevista con Vandana Shiva
No full textActivista ecologista, académica, feminista, doctora en Física, figura destacada del movimiento contra la globalización… Es difícil escoger una sola faceta para describir a Vandana Shiva (India, 1952), que llega al Círculo de Bellas Artes para participar en el proyecto El Gran Río. Resistencia, rebeldía, rebelión, revolución. Lleva varios días inmersa en unas intensas jornadas de entrevistas y presentaciones de su último libro, pero enseguida se presta a conversar sobre temas que la apasionan, como la agroecología, el ecofeminismo y la defensa del medio ambiente
AFL-CIO Rally Against the WTO 11/30/99 Ken Georgetti, Vandana Shiva, and Bob Georgine speak, 1999 (clip)
No full textSonny Hall introduces Ken Georgetti who has brought busloads of people from Canada to protest the WTO and believes in the rights of workers and does not believe in the WTO. He then introduces Vandana Shiva who delivers a speech on the WTO creating a system on theft and slave labor as well as the problem of intellectual rights taken by corporations. Linda Chavez-Thompson introduces Bob Georgine. He speaks on the subject of how all people deserve good jobs for working families which the WTO is looking to ruin with poor wages and benefits.Clip title supplied by cataloger. Speakers: Linda Chavez-Thompson: vice president of the AFL-CIO, Sonny Hall: president of the Transport Workers Union (TWU), Ken Georgetti: president of the Canadian Labor Council, Vandana Shiva: environmental advocate and the director of research at the Foundation of Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, Bob Georgine: president of the Building and Construction Trade department of the AFL-CIO.To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices, see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproductio
En el mercat capitalista: "Life inc.": biology and the expansion of capitalism markets
No full textVandana Shiva, de la Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology de Nova Delhi (India) planteja les biotecnologies com la "darrera frontera" del capital i les corporacions interessades en treure'n benefici econòmic malgrat els riscos potencials. Analitza els riscos econòmics de les biotecnologies que poden transformar l'abundància en escassesa, sense oblidar fenòmens més econòmics que tecnològics com les llavors "terminator", les noves patents d'organismes, etc.Vandana Shiva, de la Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology de Nueva Delhi (India)plantea las biotecnologías como la "última frontera" del capital y las corporaciones interesades en obtener beneficios económicos a pesar de los riesgos potenciales. Analiza los apectos económicos de las biotecnologías que pueden transformar la abundancia en escasez, sin olvidar fenómenos más económicos que tecnológicos como las semillas "terminator", las nuevas patentes de organismos, etc.Vandana Shiva from Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi (India) considers biotechnologies as the "last frontier" of capital and corporations interested in obtaining economic benefits despite the potential risks. The economic aspects of biotechnologies that can transform abundance into scarcity are analized along with phenomena more economic than technologic, such as "terminator" seeds, the new patents on organisms, etc.Peer Reviewe
Diversidade versus monocultura: dilemas de Vandana Shiva
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En el mercat capitalista: "Life inc.": biology and the expansion of capitalism markets
Get PDFVandana Shiva, de la Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology de Nova Delhi (India) planteja les biotecnologies com la "darrera frontera" del capital i les corporacions interessades en treure'n benefici econòmic malgrat els riscos potencials. Analitza els riscos econòmics de les biotecnologies que poden transformar l'abundància en escassesa, sense oblidar fenòmens més econòmics que tecnològics com les llavors "terminator", les noves patents d'organismes, etc.Vandana Shiva, de la Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology de Nueva Delhi (India)plantea las biotecnologías como la "última frontera" del capital y las corporaciones interesades en obtener beneficios económicos a pesar de los riesgos potenciales. Analiza los apectos económicos de las biotecnologías que pueden transformar la abundancia en escasez, sin olvidar fenómenos más económicos que tecnológicos como las semillas "terminator", las nuevas patentes de organismos, etc.Vandana Shiva from Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi (India) considers biotechnologies as the "last frontier" of capital and corporations interested in obtaining economic benefits despite the potential risks. The economic aspects of biotechnologies that can transform abundance into scarcity are analized along with phenomena more economic than technologic, such as "terminator" seeds, the new patents on organisms, etc.Peer Reviewe
Vandana Shiva’nın Tohumları (2021): Değerli bir Değişim Aktörü
No full textDr. Vandana Shiva has a history of environmental activism and gained popularity in mainstream media specifically for Western audiences. She has established herself as an opposition against seed monopoly and a promoter of unity. This paper chooses The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021), a documentary about Vandana Shiva’s environmental activism from an ecofeminist perspective in order to introduce different concepts addressed by this film such as women empowerment, and reductionism. This article offers a discussion on the several persuasive strategies employed in this documentary film in order to promote change, appeal to emotions, and generate a sense of identification with the character and her cause.Dr. Vandana Shiva\u27nın çevre aktivizmi geçmişi vardır ve ana akım medyada özellikle Batılı izleyiciler arasında popülerlik kazanmıştır. Kendisini tohum tekeline karşı bir muhalefet ve birliğin savunucusu olarak kurdu. Bu makale, kadının güçlendirilmesi ve indirgemecilik gibi bu filmin ele aldığı farklı kavramları tanıtmak için Vandana Shiva\u27nın çevre aktivizmini ekofeminist bir bakış açısıyla anlatan bir belgesel olan The Seeds of Vandana Shiva\u27yı (2021) seçmiştir. Bu makale, bu belgesel filmde değişimi teşvik etmek, duygulara hitap etmek ve karakter ve amacı ile özdeşleşme duygusu oluşturmak için kullanılan çeşitli ikna edici stratejiler hakkında bir tartışma sunuyor
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