Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva - Environmental activist - India.
Contents
Affiliations
- Executive Committee, Global Alliance for Rights of Nature [1]
- Team, Rights of Mother Earth [2]
- Cofounder, Bija Vidyapeeth [3]
- Cofounder, Diverse Women for Diversity [4]
- Senior Scholar 2002, Institute for Policy Studies [5]
- International Steering Committee, Global Action to Prevent War [6]
- Associate, Gaia Foundation
- Advisory Council, Green Institute [7]
- Resource Rights Advisory Board, Grassroots International [8]
- Advisory Council, Institute of Science in Society [9]
- Advisory Board, JustMedia [10]
- Advisory Board, International Society for Ecology and Culture [11]
- Advisory Board, Living Routes [12]
- Advisory Board, People-Centered Development Forum [13]
- Advisory Board, Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace [14]
- Scientific Committee, IDEAS Foundation for Progress [15]
- Scientific Committee, Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity [16]
- Director, International Forum on Globalization [17]
- Steering Committee, Global GMO Free Coalition [18]
- Executive Committee, World Future Council [19]
- International Advisory Board, Gaia University [20]
- International Advisory Board, Women's Earth Alliance [21]
- Former Board Member, Women Environment and Development Organisation
- Former Vice President, Third World Network [1]
- Selection Committee, 11th Annual Brower Youth Award [22]
- International Advisory Board, Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus [23]
- Editorial Board, Solutions Journal [24]
- Messenger, 350.org [25]
- Jury Member (2008), Buckminster Fuller Challenge [26]
- Winner of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize
- Winner of the 2015 Global Green Millennium Awards
Edited Books
- Maria Miles and Vandana Shiva (eds), Ecofeminism: Reconnecting a Divided World (Zed Books 1993).
Publications
- Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in Kolar, Vandana Shiva, H.C. Sharatchandra, J. Banyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, 1981)
- Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India (Zed Press, 1988).
- Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India (Sage Publications, 1991).
- The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab (Zed Press, 1992).
- Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (editor) (Zed Press, 1992).
- Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections (editor), Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Kali for Women, New Delhi (1993).
- Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture (Zed Press, 1993).
- Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva (Fernwood Publications, 1993).
- Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide (Earthscan, 1994).
- Biopolitics (with Ingunn Moser) (Zed Books, 1995).
- Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997).
- Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (South End Press, 1999).
- Tomorrow's Biodiversity (Thames and Hudson, 2000).
- Patents, Myths and Reality (Penguin, 2001).
- Water Wars; Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (South End Press, 2002).
- Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms Women Unlimited (New Delhi, 2005).
- Breakfast of Biodiversity: the Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
- Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005).
- Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, editor, (South End Press, 2007).
Criticism of Her Work
- Bina Agarwal, “The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India,” (pdf) Feminist Studies, 18 (1), 1992.
- Richard Lewontin, “Genes in the Food!,” New York Review of Books, June 21, 2001, pp.81-84.
- Bina Agarwal, “Environmental Management, Equity, and Ecofeminism: Debating India’s Experience,” In: Kum-Kum Bhavnani (ed.), Feminism and Race (Oxford University Press, 2001).
- Tina Roy and Craig Borowiak, “Against Ecofeminism: The Splintered Subject of Agrarian Nationalism in Post-Independence India,” Alternatives: Global Local Political 28 (1), 2003, pp.57-90.
- Regina Cochrane, "Rural Poverty and Impoverished Theory: Cultural Populism, Ecofeminism, and Global Justice," The Journal of Peasant Studies, 34 (2), April 2007, pp.167-206 (see summary); an earlier version of this article was published online as "'They Aren't Really Poor': Ecofeminism, Global Justice, and 'Culturally-Perceived Poverty'."
- Noel Kinsbury, Hybrid:the History and Science of plant breeding (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch articles
- Robin Maynard
- 1993: Order of the Golden Ark Winner
- Supporter, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy [27]
- Shumei International
References
- ↑ Global Alliance for Rights of Nature Committee, organizational web page, accessed December 17, 2013.
- ↑ rightsofmotherearth Team, organizational web page, accessed December 20, 2013.
- ↑ Earth University, navdanya, accessed October 6, 2011.
- ↑ Diverse Women for Diversity, Navdanya, accessed October 18, 2011.
- ↑ Senior Scholars, Institute for Policy Studies, accessed August 19, 2007.
- ↑ Who, Global Action to Prevent War, accessed July 8, 2007.
- ↑ Green Institute Advisory Board, organizational web page, accessed August 15, 2017.
- ↑ Advisors, Grassroots International, accessed August 4, 2009.
- ↑ Institute of Science in Society About, organizational web page, accessed October 13, 2013.
- ↑ Advisory Board, JustMedia, accessed November 10, 2007.
- ↑ Home, International Society for Ecology and Culture, accessed August 26, 2008.
- ↑ Board, Living Routes, accessed October 19, 2011.
- ↑ Directors, People-Centered Development Forum, accessed December 20, 2007.
- ↑ People, Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace, accessed May 20, 2008.
- ↑ Scientific Committee, IDEAS Foundation for Progress, accessed October 18, 2011.
- ↑ Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity Scientific Committee, organizational web page, accessed February 13, 2013.
- ↑ Directors, International Forum on Globalization, accessed December 20, 2007.
- ↑ Global GMO Free Coalition Steering Committee, organizational web page, accessed August 13, 2018.
- ↑ Executive Committee, World Future Council, accessed January 5, 2009.
- ↑ International Advisory Board, Gaia University, accessed October 6, 2009.
- ↑ International Advisory Board, Women's Earth Alliance, accessed February 16, 2010.
- ↑ Brower Youth Award Selection Process, organizational web page, accessed April 19, 2012.
- ↑ Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus International Advisory Board, organizational web page, accessed December 21, 2013.
- ↑ Solutions Journal Editorial Board, organizational web page, accessed June 18, 2013.
- ↑ Messengers, 350.org, accessed December 12, 2011.
- ↑ Jurors, Buckminster Fuller Challenge, accessed December 8, 2011.
- ↑ Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Notable Signatures, organizational web page, accessed April 19, 2012.
