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Biopiratería
El Saqueo de la Naturaleza y del Conocimiento
Vandana Shiva
Pages: 152ISBN: 978-0-89608-791-0
Format: Paperback original
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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"Biopiratería(…), marca un hito en una de las cuestiones más importantes del siglo [XXI]… El sugestivo enfoque de Vandana Shiva es un toque de clarín…debería ser leído y discutido por quienes se preocupan por el futuro de la Tierra.>>
—Jeremy Rifkin, autor de El fin del trabajo
"Con su singular estilo, amalgama de análisis y de pasión, Vandana Shiva se remonta a la colonización europea de los pueblos indígenas… como origen del actual proceso de apropiación de unos recursos naturales necesarios para su supervivencia física y cultural."
—Ruth Hubbard, Profesora Emérita de Biología, Universidad de Harvard
Biopiratería nos muestra porque sólo se reconocen los derechos de propiedad intelectual cuando el conocimiento y la innovación producen ganancias, no cuando responden al bien común —la creatividad sólo se pone al servicio de la obtención de beneficios y la acumulación de capital— y cómo se apropia el Norte de la riqueza de conocimientos del Sur.
Vandana Shiva, teórica y activista ambiental mundialmente reconocida, es lider del International Forum on Globalization y fue galardonada con el Premio Nobel de la Paz Alternativo (the Right Livelihood Award). Además de ser directora de Navdanya, es autora de varios libros como Las guerras del agua: Privatización, contaminación y lucro; Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis y Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. Antes de hacerse activista, Vandana Shiva era una de las principales científicas de la India.
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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 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (South End Press, 2010) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (South End Press, 2008), Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005),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), and The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992).
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). In 2010, she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her commitment to social justice. 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 PhD in particle physics.