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Biopiracy
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Vandana Shiva
Pages: 148ISBN: 0-89608-555-4
Format: paper
Release Date: 1997-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Biopiracy examines the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, forests, oceans, and atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, Northern capital is now carving out new colonies to exploit for gain: the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals.
Named a "Break-Through Book" on Intellectual Property in Lingua Franca in its July/August 1999 issue
Table of Contents
Introduction
Piracy Through Patents
1
Knowledge, Creativity, and Intellectual Property rights
2 Can Life Be Made? Can Life Be Owned?
3 The Seed and the Earth
4 Biodiversity and People's Knowledge
5 Tripping Over Life
6 Making Peace with Diversity
7 Nonviolence and Cultivation of Diversity
Vandana Shiva
Click here to view Vandana Shiva's full Author Page“Shiva … has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India … her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.”—Ms. Magazine
“A leading thinker who has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality, and women's rights into a powerful philosophy.”—Utne Reader
“One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.”—The Guardian
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989).
Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya (“nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .
Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India ’s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics.