Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio Diversity

Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 11
PERMISSIONS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF WESTERN GLOBAL CULTURE......Page 20
Cultural Logic......Page 27
Decolonising Scholarship......Page 30
Biodiversity and Seeds......Page 32
The Seed of Culture......Page 35
Weaving the Strands......Page 37
Defining the Wild......Page 39
CHAPTER ONE THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVERSITY......Page 46
Beginnings......Page 48
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis......Page 50
Feminism......Page 52
Change......Page 55
Creating Feminist Knowledge......Page 56
Who Is the Knower?......Page 62
Standpoint Theory......Page 68
Analysis......Page 69
Synthesis......Page 72
Dissociation......Page 74
Associative Thinking......Page 78
Power......Page 82
The Power of Violence......Page 87
The Power of Reward......Page 92
The Power of Backlash......Page 94
The Power of Obstacles......Page 96
The Power of Systems......Page 97
The Power of Attraction......Page 100
The Power of Attitudes......Page 103
Knowledge......Page 104
Assimilation and Appropriation......Page 106
A Clash of Knowledge Systems......Page 111
Not Seeing......Page 115
The Perceptual Gap......Page 116
How Knowledge Is Valued......Page 118
Cultural Homogeneity......Page 120
In Defence of Diversity......Page 124
The Logic of Neoclassical Economics......Page 128
How Women Are (ac)Counted......Page 141
Economic Homogeneity and Globalisation......Page 146
Decolonising Economics......Page 156
Feminist Economics......Page 158
Ecological Economics......Page 167
Toward a Wild Economics......Page 173
Wilderness......Page 180
Land......Page 190
Dealing with Waste......Page 195
“Freeing” the Land, Enclosing the Commons......Page 196
Feminist Conceptions of Land......Page 199
Indigenous Conceptions of Land......Page 202
Land as Possession......Page 205
Tourism: Land and Wilderness as Commodity......Page 211
Urban Land......Page 215
Urban Land as Wild Space......Page 218
Steps to Developing a Wild Politics of Land......Page 220
CHAPTER FIVE FARMING, FISHING AND FORESTRY: FROM SUBSISTENCE TO TERMINATOR TECHNOLOGY......Page 224
Farming in Kenya and Nigeria......Page 226
Forestry in Europe, North America and South Asia......Page 236
Fishing in the Pacific......Page 248
Digitised and Globalised Farming: What the future holds......Page 254
The Kyoto Protocol, Plantation Forests and Terminator Trees......Page 267
Fishing Wild Fish to Feed Domesticated Fish......Page 272
Women as Keepers of Ecosystems......Page 278
Production and Disparity......Page 280
Consumption and Disparity......Page 285
Work and Disparity......Page 288
Global Production......Page 291
Global Consumption......Page 300
Global Work......Page 309
Local Production......Page 315
Local Consumption......Page 317
Local Work......Page 320
The Military as Gross Producer and Consumer......Page 327
CHAPTER SEVEN MONOCULTURES AND MULTILATERAL TRADE RULES......Page 330
Patents......Page 332
Multilateral Trade Agreements and the Shape of International Law......Page 340
Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Convention on Biological Diversity......Page 342
The World Trade Organisation (WTO)......Page 348
Trade Related Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs)......Page 351
Food Security......Page 358
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)......Page 363
Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs)......Page 367
The Human Genome Project (HGP) and the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP)......Page 370
Conclusion......Page 378
CHAPTER EIGHT WILD POLITICS......Page 380
Wild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years......Page 387
APPENDIX......Page 394
GLOSSARY......Page 399
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 408
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 410
INDEX......Page 461