Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva - Environmental activist - India.

Affiliations

 * Executive Committee, Global Alliance for Rights of Nature
 * Team, Rights of Mother Earth
 * Cofounder, Bija Vidyapeeth
 * Cofounder, Diverse Women for Diversity
 * Senior Scholar 2002, Institute for Policy Studies
 * International Steering Committee, Global Action to Prevent War
 * Associate, Gaia Foundation
 * Resource Rights Advisory Board, Grassroots International
 * Advisory Council, Institute of Science in Society
 * Advisory Board, JustMedia
 * Advisory Board, International Society for Ecology and Culture
 * Advisory Board, Living Routes
 * Advisory Board, People-Centered Development Forum
 * Advisory Board, Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace
 * Scientific Committee, IDEAS Foundation for Progress
 * Scientific Committee, Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
 * Director, International Forum on Globalization
 * Executive Committee, World Future Council
 * International Advisory Board, Gaia University
 * International Advisory Board, Women's Earth Alliance
 * Former Board Member, Women Environment and Development Organisation
 * Former Vice President, Third World Network
 * Selection Committee, 11th Annual Brower Youth Award
 * International Advisory Board, Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus
 * Editorial Board, Solutions Journal
 * Messenger, 350.org
 * Jury Member (2008), Buckminster Fuller Challenge
 * Winner of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize

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).

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