Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index. Woman, nature and the international division of labour / Maria Mies, Ariel Salleh -- Losing faith in progress: capitalist patriarchy as an 'alchemical system' / Claudia von Werlhof -- Sustainable development: rescue operation for a dying illusion / Saral Sarkar -- Globalization and poverty / Vandana Shiva -- Melanesia, the banks and the bingos: real alternatives are everywhere (except in the consultants' briefcases) / Nicholas G. Faraclas -- The clash of knowledge systems: local diversity in the wild versus global homogeneity in the marketplace / Susan Hawthorne -- Globalized bodies in the twenty-first century: the final patriarchal takeover? / Renate Klein -- 'Women never surrendered': the Mau Mau and globalization from below in Kenya 1980-2000 / Terisa E. Turner, Leigh S. Brownhill -- War, globalization and reproduction / Silvia Federici -- Seattle: a convergence of globalization and militarization / Theresa J. Wolfwood -- Mexico: creating your own path at the grassroots / Gustavo Esteva -- Resisting 'technology' and defending subsistence in Bangladesh: Nayakrishi Andolon and the movement for a happy life / Farida Akhter -- Local lifeline: rejecting globalization - embracing localization / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Women in the international gardens: how subsistence production leads to new forms of intercultural communication / Christa Müller -- The practice of subsistence: collective environmental action and community organic farming / Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen -- What really keeps our cities alive, money or subsistence? / Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen.

Classification

• LCC: HD2755.5
• Dewey Decimal: 338.9/27/091724

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xv, 240 p. ; 22 cm.
• Edition Info: (SPINIFEX)

Subjects

• International business enterprises -- Social aspects
• Globalization -- Social aspects
• Globalization -- Economic aspects
• Subsistence economy
• Sustainable development
• Subsistence economy -- Developing countries
• Sustainable development -- Developing countries
• Developing countries -- Economic conditions

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