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Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples'' lands and bodies. Today, that theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. This book engages with the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mindset of the contemporary Androcene and its threats to Life-on-Earth, including global warming and nuclear risks, mining and the gene trade, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital coloniality.Ariel Salleh spells out the social and ecological contradictions set in motion by neocolonialism. Inspired by decolonial thinkers from Arturo Escobar to Tyson Yunkaporta, and critics of technology like Vandana Shiva and Shoshana Zuboff, she argues that dispossession of First Nation peoples'' livelihoods is not healed by consumerism in the name of ''development''. Breaking with ecomodernist policy such as ''the tech fix'' of mainstream environmentalists, Salleh contests the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist imperium and its advocacy of Green New Deals, Earth Governance, Sustainable Development Goals, and Smart Futures.Worldwide many decolonial activists see through the zero-sum imagination and its Earth Summits. Youth too, is defying the capitalist ruling class extinction trajectory, and some even challenge the fashionable post-human ideology circulating in high-tech quarters. Beyond ''exchange value'', these Others of the Androcene are calling for self-governing bioregional futures, respectful of indigenous skills; they want local food sovereign economies, which meet people''s needs while protecting nature''s ''metabolic value''.Spelling out the biopolitical violence of digitalization and genetic engineering, this book traces two decades of creative defiance by global peoples'' movements against the contradictions of ecomodernist development and its ongoing imposition by nation states and international agencies.

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Book SynopsisFemale academics discuss the big issues of our timeTrade Review'The Eco-Sufficiency anthology based on the diversity and pluralism of perspectives inspired by ecofeminism is a must read for anyone searching for alternatives' -- Vandana Shiva, Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology, New Delhi; author, activist, and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize'By far and away the best collection of ecological feminist writing I have found' -- Richard Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources, University of California at Berkeley'People are much more than the atomised units of neoclassical and environmental economics. Economic and ecological practices conducted by women and other marginalised groupings must be recognised as a source of new theoretical understandings, critical for social and environmental justice to be achieved' -- Peter Dickens, Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge; author of the award winning book Society & Nature (Polity, 2004)'These new and incisive perspectives put forth a transformative agenda for global justice. And in doing so, the collection draws all of us -- activists and academics alike -- closer to a common political denominator in the search for a true alternative to globalisation' -- Lim Li Ching, leading international biodiversity activist, Third World Network, Kuala LumpurTable of ContentsEcological Debt: Embodied Debt by Ariel Salleh PART I - HISTORIES 1. The Devaluation of Women's Labour by Silvia Federici Who is the 'He' of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse? by Ewa Charkiewicz 2. The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity by Susan Hawthorne PART II - MATTER 3. Development for Some is Violence for Others by Nalini Nayak 4. Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised Space by Zohl de Ishtar 5. Women and Deliberative Water Management by Andrea Moraes and Ellie Perkins PART III - GOVERNANCE 6. Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals? by Gig Francisco and Peggy Antrobus 7. Policy and the Measure of Woman by Marilyn Waring 8. Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice by Sabine U. O'Hara PART IV - ENERGY 9. Who Pays for Kyoto Protocol? Selling Oxygen and Selling Sex by Ana Isla 10. How Global Warming is Gendered by Meike Spitzner 11. Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty by Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner PART V - MOVEMENT 12. Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money by Mary Mellor 13. Saving Women: Saving the Commons by Leo Podlashuc 14. From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice by Ariel Salleh Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a light in the dark age of social and ecological crises. Not only does it interconnect the destructive tendencies of the capitalist patriarchal global politics of homogenization, fragmentation and colonization, but it also offers the subsistence perspective as a form of resistance and liberation within the limits of nature. * Ana Isla, Brock University *[Ecofeminism] presents a very focused, searing indictment of development strategies practiced by the North on the South. * Praise for the First Edition, Anne Stratham, Feminist Collections *Ecofeminism is about the similarity of society´s relationship with nature and women. Mies and Shiva were the first to show the sad parallels in nearly all spheres of life, in the North as well as in the South. Their book belongs to the classical texts of a feminism that developed a more profound critique of modernity as "capitalist patriarchy" than Marxism, ecoscience and gender studies had done. Twenty years later the global spread of neoliberalism has resulted in the "death of nature", even of Planet Earth, and the death of women in many ways, leading to the emergence of new social movements worldwide. * Claudia von Werlhof, University of Innsbruck *In view of the post-modern fashion for dismantling all generalizations, the views propounded in Mies’ and Shiva’s Ecofeminism make refreshing reading. They show a commendable readiness to confront hypocrisy, challenge the intellectual heritage of the European Enlightenment, and breathe spiritual concerns into debates on gender and the environment. Technology development could benefit from their plea that progress through the control of nature must be replaced by cooperation, mutual care, and love. * Praise for the First Edition, Emma Crewe, Appropriate Technology Journal *This book is prescient: its time is now. It helps us to understand why women are taking the lead in the struggle to resist global forces endangering our survival and to forge a new society. The courage, radicalism and lucidity of Mies and Shiva twenty years ago still guide us on the path ahead. * Gustavo Esteva, grassroots activist and author *Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies offer an all-embracing vision. They show the interconnectedness of these problems and trace them to their source: how our modern world has been relating to Nature since the time of the Enlightenment right up to the biotechnology of today; how superiority to and dominance over Nature has ensured the violence inseparable from our civilisation. [...] For all those, and certainly for humanists, who are wrestling with the ethical, sexist and racist issues raised by invasive reproductive gene technology, Maria Mies’ chapters on these developments are a must: she subjects them to the most thorough and thoughtful investigation based on what I see as sound humanist as well as feminist philosophy. * Praise for the First Edition, Gwen Marsh, New Humanist *The re-release of Ecofeminism after twenty years is auspicious and long overdue. Converging from widely divergent perspectives, Mies and Shiva achieved a profound conceptual synthesis: the rising of women, everywhere, to protect life from the capitalist patriarchal World System. Overturning all, like good cultivators, they prepare the earth for renewal. * Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature *Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, a German social scientist from the feminist movement and an Indian physicist from the ecology movement, are ideally suited to author a book of such broad intellectual, geographic, and political scope. while there are some notable differences in their approaches, they are crystal clear their adversaries as patriarchal capitalism, which they hold responsible for the colonization of developing countries, women, and nature. * Praise for the First Edition, Karen T Litfin, University of Washington *This book provides an extraordinarily productive framework for entire generations of scholars and activists * Michael Hardt, co-author of the Empire trilogy *Dual authorship at its best, these complementary perspectives of an Indian physical scientist and a German social scientist combine to bring feminist scruples to bear on the environment, new reproductive technologies and masculinist thinking. * Praise for the First Edition, WATERwheel *Read independently of the collection, many of the essays have innovative things to say to the political movements involved in fighting large scale development, nuclear energy, violence against women, wars and environmental destruction. Shiva’s discussion of the development establishment’s misnomer of poverty, her discussion of the biotechnology and the impact of GATT on third world women and informative political critique, and Mies on eco-tourism, German women’s response to Chernobyl, and her critique of body as property and self-determination in the context of surrogacy, are enlivening additions to important debates. * Praise for the First Edition, Wendy Harcourt, Development Journal *Table of ContentsForeword - Ariel Salleh Preface to the 'Critique Influence Change' edition 1. Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book Together Part I: Critique and Perspective 2. Reductionism and Regeneration: A Crisis in Science, Vandana Shiva 3. Feminist Research: Science, Violence and Responsibility, Maria Mies Part II: Subsistence V. Development 4. The Myth of Catching-up Development, Maria Mies 5. The Impoverishment of the environment: Women and Children Last, Vandana Shiva 6. Who Made Nature Our Enemy?, Maria Mies Part III: The Search for Roots 7. Homeless in the 'Global Village', Vandana Shiva 8. Masculinization of the Motherland, Vandana Shiva 9. Women Have No Fatherland, Maria Mies 10. White Man's Dilemma: His Search for What He has Destroyed, Maria Mies Part IV: Ecofeminism V. New Areas of Investment through Biotechnology 11. Women's Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation, Vandana Shiva 12. New Reproductive Technologies: Sexist and Racist Implications, Maria Mies 13. From the Individual to the Dividual: the Supermarket of 'Reproductive alternatives' Maria Mies Part V: Freedom for Trade or Freedom for Survival 14. Self Determination: The End of a Utopia? Maria Mies 15. GATT, Agriculture and Third World Women, Vandana Shiva 16. The Chipko Women's Concept of Freedom, Vandana, Shiva

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