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    Title
    Earth Democracy
    Subtitle
    Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Vandana Shiva
    Physical properties
    Format: Microfilm
    Number of pages: 205
    Width: 140 mm
    Height: 216 mm
    Thickness: 14 mm
    Weight: 286 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780896087453
    ISBN 10: 089608745X
    Classifications
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T7.3
    BICMainSubject: JPHV
    BISAC category code: POL007000
    Dewey: 333.7
    BISAC category code: SOC028000
    BISAC category code: BUS000000
    BISAC category code: NAT011000
    Publisher
    South End Press
    Imprint name
    South End Press
    Publication date
    22 September 2005
    Publication City/Country
    Boston/US
    Biographical note
    A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.
    Main description
    A leading voice in the struggle for global justice, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental activist and physicist. In Earth Democracy, Shiva updates the struggles she helped bring to international attention—against genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization-—uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death. Starting in the 16th century with the initial enclosure of the British commons, Shiva reveals how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and privatized. As our ecological sustainability and cultural diversity erode, so too is human life rendered disposable. Through the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion ignite violence across lines of difference, threatening the lives of millions. Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend shaping human history. Struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world have yielded a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons, and freely sharing the earth’s resources. These ideals, which Shiva calls Earth Democracy, serves as an urgent call to peace and as the basis for a just and sustainable future.