The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics

Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates in its wake, the author looks to the future in an analysis of the new project to apply the latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue.

Author: Vandana Shiva
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 10/01/1991
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780862329655
ISBN10: 0862329655
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries | General
- Science | Environmental Science (see also Chemistry | Environmental)
- Business & Economics | Economics | General

About the Author

Vandana Shiva is the author of the much-acclaimed Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Physicist, philosopher and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Dehradun. She is active in citizens' action against environmental destruction, including the Chipko Movement. She is also the Science and Environment Advisor of the Third World Network.
Vandana Shiva is the author of the much-acclaimed Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Physicist, philosopher and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Dehradun. She is active in citizens' action against environmental destruction, including the Chipko Movement. She is also the Science and Environment Advisor of the Third World Network.