Wild Politics : Feminism, Globalisation and Biodiversity
Wild Politics : Feminism, Globalisation and Biodiversity
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Author(s): Hawthorne, Susan
ISBN No.: 9781925950687
Edition: Revised
Pages: 484
Year: 202208
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 33.69
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

AcknowledgementsPermissionsPreface to the 2022 edition INTRODUCTIONA Feminist Critique of Western Global CultureCultural LogicDecolonising ScholarshipBiodiversity and SeedsThe Seed of CultureWeaving the StrandsDefining the Wild CHAPTER ONEThe Principle of DiversityBeginningsThesis, Antithesis, SynthesisFeminismChangeCreating Feminist KnowledgeWho is the Knower?Standpoint TheoryAnalysisSynthesisDissociationAssociative Thinking CHAPTER 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 Diversity CHAPTER THREEOne Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies?The Logic of Neoclassical EconomicsHow Women Are (ac)CountedEconomic Homogeneity and GlobalisationDecolonising EconomicsFeminist EconomicsEcological EconomicsToward a Wild Economics CHAPTER 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 land CHAPTER 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 ecosystems CHAPTER SIXProduction, consumption and work: global and localProduction and disparityConsumption and disparityWork and disparityGlobal productionGlobal consumptionGlobal workLocal productionLocal consumptionLocal workMilitary as gross producer and consumerConclusion CHAPTER 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)Conclusion CHAPTER EIGHTWild PoliticsWild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years AppendixTables1. World's 100 largest economic entities (2001)2. Companies, countries and name changes3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversityGlossaryAbbreviationsBibliography.


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