Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development - Softcover

Shiva, Vandana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089608793X ISBN 13: 9780896087934

Publisher: South End Press, 2010

Synopsis

A feminist and environmental justice classic, with a new introduction by Vandana Shiva

Extraordinary in the ease of its global and historical scopes and the clarity of its arguments.” Women’s Review of Books

Since at least the days of Francis Bacon, the dominant view in the western world has framed technological and economic development as progress and championed that same narrow vision of progress” as inherently benevolent and inevitable. Multinational corporations, the IMF and World Bank, national governments, and humanitarian organizations regularly promote development as the only road to security but those being developed” know otherwise.

Staying Alive makes clear why this development paradigm implemented through enclosure, privatization, corporate piracy, marginalization, and violence is more accurately characterized as maldevelopment, and how it is inexorably dragging the world down a path of self-destruction. Prescient and fiercely relevant, this pioneering work illuminates how women, more than surviving the crises brought on by development, are creating and safeguarding vital sources of knowledge and vision on not only how to stay alive, but why we should in the first place.

Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most prominent radical scientists in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women.” Guardian

A world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva is the author of many books, including Stolen Harvest, Earth Democracy, and Soil Not Oil. She is the founder of Navdanya and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and the Slow Food movement.

About this title

About the Author:

A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.

Review:

"Extraordinary in the ease of its global and historical scopes and the clarity of its arguments.” Women’s Review of Books

"Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientests... in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women."--The Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 089608793X
• ISBN 13: 9780896087934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240