Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Shiva, Vandana

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623170707)

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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Shiva, Vandana

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

$14.95
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Shiva, Vandana

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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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 to conserve both cultural and biological diversity. As the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, corporations are now looking for new colonies to exploit and invade for further accumulation--in Shiva's view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Biopiracy is a learned, clear, and passionately stated objection to the ways in which Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes and traditional forms of knowledge.


Author: Vandana Shiva
ISBN-10: 1623170702
ISBN-13: 9781623170707
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2016
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
By Vandana Shiva
By Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is the author and editor of many influential books, including Making Peace with the Earth, Earth Democracy, Soil Not Oil, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars, and Globalization's New Wars. Dr. Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011). In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

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