Wild Politics : Feminism, Globalisation and Biodiversity
Wild Politics : Feminism, Globalisation and Biodiversity
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Author(s): Hawthorne, Susan
ISBN No.: 9781925950687
Pages: 484
Year: 202208
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 37.19
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ContentsAcknowledgementsPermissionsPreface to the 2022 editionINTRODUCTIONA Feminist Critique of Western Global CultureCultural LogicDecolonising ScholarshipBiodiversity and SeedsThe Seed of CultureWeaving the StrandsDefining the WildCHAPTER ONEThe Principle of DiversityBeginningsThesis, Antithesis, SynthesisFeminismChangeCreating Feminist KnowledgeWho is the Knower?Standpoint TheoryAnalysisSynthesisDissociationAssociative ThinkingCHAPTER TWOPower and Knowledge: Global Monotony or Local Diversity?PowerThe Power of ViolenceThe Power of RewardThe Power of BacklashThe Power of ObstaclesThe Power of SystemsThe Power of AttractionThe Power of AttitudesKnowledgeAssimilation and AppropriationA Clash of Knowledge SystemsNot seeingThe Perceptual GapHow Knowledge is ValuedCultural HomogeneityIn Defence of DiversityCHAPTER THREEOne Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies?The Logic of Neoclassical EconomicsHow Women Are (ac)CountedEconomic Homogeneity and GlobalisationDecolonising EconomicsFeminist EconomicsEcological EconomicsToward a Wild EconomicsCHAPTER FOURLand as Relationship and Land as PossessionLand as resource or relationship?WildernessLandDealing with Waste"Freeing" the Land, Enclosing the CommonsFeminist conceptions of landIndigenous conceptions of landLand as possessionTourism: land and wilderness as commodityUrban landUrban land as wild spaceSteps to developing a wild politics of landCHAPTER FIVEFarming, Fishing and Forestry: from subsistence to terminator technologyFarming in Kenya and NigeriaForestry in Lithuania, the USA, Bangladesh and Sri LankaFishing in the PacificDigitised and globalised farming: what the future holdsThe Kyoto Protocol, plantation forests and Terminator TreesFishing wild fish to feed domesticated fishThe commodification of "everything"Women as keepers of ecosystemsCHAPTER SIXProduction, consumption and work: global and localProduction and disparityConsumption and disparityWork and disparityGlobal productionGlobal consumptionGlobal workLocal productionLocal consumptionLocal workMilitary as gross producer and consumerConclusionCHAPTER SEVENMonocultures and multilateral trade rulesPatentsMultilateral trade agreements and the shape of international lawMultilateral trade negotiations and the convention on biological diversityThe World Trade Organisation (WTO)Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)Food securityThe Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs)Human Genome Project (HGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP)ConclusionCHAPTER EIGHTWild PoliticsWild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 yearsAppendixTables1. World's 100 largest economic entities (2001)2. Companies, countries and name changes3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversityGlossaryAbbreviationsBibliography.


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