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Title

Paradigm wars : indigenous peoples' resistance to globalization / edited by Jerry Mander and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

Publication

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed by University of California Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Mander, Jerry
• Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria
• International Forum on Globalization

Description

261 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Author and cultural critic Jerry Mander and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples. Many of the planet's dwindling resources are located on lands inhabited by native communities. This source explores the effect that The World Trade Organization and other global structures have affected these native lands. Paradigm Wars is the first major work to comprehensively illuminate this situation. In firsthand reports by twenty-five indigenous and nonindigenous writers, the book details the devastating impacts of extractive industries and bioprospecting, the degrading of cultural artifacts and languages, even the damage done by some well-meaning conservation groups. The book also highlights how indigenous communities are strongly resisting this onslaught, often with amazing success. Anyone concerned with environmental or social justice will find inspiration in their resistance.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Economic conditions
• Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
• Culture and globalization
• Globalization
• Anti-globalization movement
• Environmental degradation
• Autochtones > Conditions économiques
• Autochtones > Conditions sociales
• Culture et mondialisation
• Mondialisation
• Antimondialisation
• Environnement > Dégradation

Note

• "International Forum on Globalization."
• Rev. ed. of: Paradigm wars. San Francisco, Calif. : International Forum on Globalization, 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : globalization and the assault on indigenous resources / Jerry Mander -- Our right to remain separate and distinct / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Aspects of traditional knowledge and worldview -- The people belong to the land / Winona LaDuke -- Subsistence and materialsm / John Mohawk -- The whole planet is the Holy Land / Leslie Gray -- Indigenous ecological knowledge / Darrell Posey -- Community : "sharing one skin" / Jeannette Armstrong -- Amautawasi Quechuan University / Luis Macas -- World Bank and IMF impacts on indigenous economies / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- How the World Trade Organization diminishes native sovereignty / Victor Menotti -- High-tech invasion : biocolonialism / Debra Harry -- TRIPS Agreement : from the commons to corporate patents on life / Vandana Shiva -- Infrastructure development in the South American Amazon / Janet Lloyd, Atossa Soltani, and Kevin Koenig --
• Climate change in the Arctic / Sheila Watt-Cloutier -- A-bombs to Star Wars : the sixty-years war on Marshall Islanders / Zohl dé Ishtar -- Global water wars / Antonia Juhasz -- Sacred objects, art and nature in a global economy / Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson -- Conservation refugees / Mark Dowie -- Mixed promises of ecotourism / Suzanne York -- The fall and rise of a native language / E. Koohan Paik -- Genetic pollution of Mayan corn / Suzanne York -- Ogoni people of Nigeria versus Big Oil / Oronto Douglas & Ike Okonta -- The Philippine Mining Act of 1995 / Tebtebba and IFG -- Briefing reports / Tebtebba and IFG -- Report from "the heart of the Earth" : Second Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples / Beverly Bell -- Bolivia's indigenous revolution / Suzanne York -- Indian country : "the Saudi Arabia of wind" / Winona LaDuke -- Indigenous brief to WTO : how the denial of aboriginal title serves as an illegal export subsidy / Arthur Manuel --
• The prospect ahead / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Epilogue : summary and final comments / Jerry Mander.

ISBN

• 1578051320 (alk. paper)
• 9781578051328 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006044289

OCLC

• 65205143
• SCSB-11497950

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library