Vandana Shiva Knihy

V knize Demokracie Země Shiva informuje o bojích, kterým pomohla získat celosvětovou pozornost: proti geneticky modifikovaným potravinám, proti zcizování duševního vlastnictví a proti privatizaci přírodních zdrojů. Současně odhaluje, jak tyto zápasy souvisejí s rostoucím přílivem fundamentalismu, se stoupajícím násilím proti ženám a s hrozícím zánikem naší planety. Shiva začíná v minulosti, kdy v 16. století začaly první zábory veřejných pozemků v Británii. Odhaluje, jak se veřejné prostory a statky zmenšují i nadále, neboť přírodní zdroje se čím dál víc patentují a privatizují. Naše ekologická udržitelnost a kulturní diverzita je narušena a také lidský život je vnímán jako postradatelný. V existujících konfliktech zájmů podněcují síly neoliberální globalizace násilí prostřednictvím ekonomického a společenského vyloučení, což ohrožuje životy milionů lidí.

Acclaimed author and award-winning scientist and activist Vandana Shiva lucidly details the severity of the global water shortage, calling the water crisis the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. She sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert the life-sustaining resource of water into more gold for the elites and uses her knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good. Revealing how many of the most important conflicts of our time, most often camouflaged as ethnic wars or religious wars, are in fact conflicts over scarce but vital natural resources, she calls for a movement to preserve water access for all and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this edition of Water Wars celebrates the spiritual and traditional role water has played in communities throughout history and warns that water privatization threatens cultures and livelihoods worldwide.

A radical new vision for global food production, from one of the world's most iconic environmental thinkers.

The book emphasizes the author's nuanced approach as an advocate, highlighting her ability to recognize the intricate relationships between economy, nature, and culture. This depth of understanding prevents her from oversimplifying complex issues. Additionally, her appreciation for diversity plays a crucial role in her perspective, suggesting that a multifaceted view is essential for effective advocacy. Wendell Berry's foreword underscores these qualities as vital to her work.

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.

Outlines a bold and compelling vision for a world liberated from our dependence on fossil fuels and globalization.

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.

This work explores the effects of globalized corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and food quality, addressing issues like genetically-engineered seeds, life patents, mad cows versus sacred cows, and shrimp farming debates.

In this compelling and rigorously documented exposition, Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalization in its pursuit of profit and power, and reveals its devastating environmental impact. Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world's devastated eco-landscape, one of genetic engineering, industrial development, agribusiness and land-grabs in Africa, Asia and South America. She concludes that exploitation of this order is incurring an ecological and economic debt that is utterly unsustainable. Making Peace with the Earth boldly makes the claim that a paradigm shift to earth-centered politics and economics is our only chance of survival, envisioning how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism.

A rallying cry for a more just and sustainable future, which remains just as trenchant, and as vital, as it was when it was first published.