A thought-provoking collection of essays and articles by radical thinkers from across the globe, There Is An Alternative moves beyond criticism of current globalisation trends, offering theoretical and practical alternatives for our world.

Inspired by the ground-breaking work of Maria Mies and her colleagues, which culminates in the elaboration of the ‘subsistence perspective’, the book is in three parts, dealing first with the theory of subsistence, then considering globalisation as colonisation and reporting on concrete cases of resistance to gloablisation in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific.

The susbsistence perspective emerges as a fertile matrix for creative thinking and action to reclaim our labour, our communities, our environment, our bodies and our lives.

Anyone who refuses to believe that corporate globalisation is our inevitable destiny will find this book a solid basis for formulating ideas and implementing strategies for the creation of a future in the image and the interest of the world’s peoples.
Contributors include: Vandana Shiva, Ariel Salleh, Claudia von Werlhof, Saral Sarkar, Nicholas Faraclas, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein,Terisa E.Turner, Leigh S.Brownhill,Silvia Federici,Gustavo Esteva,Farida Akhter,Helena Norberg-Hodge,Christa Müller,Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen,and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen.

In 1993, Vandana Shiva won the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize). She is also the author of Staying Alive. Maria Mies is the author of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale.

Ecofeminism is a collaborative volume from two of the world's foremost thinkers on ecology and feminism. Mies and Shiva draw attention to the deterioration of the environment and identify strategies to combat the destruction. The notion of "development" and its relationship to over-consumption comes under close scrutiny, as do debates on reproductive technology and "green" biotechnologies. An important book that draws together research from India and Europe.

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ISBN 1-876756-17-9 Women ’s Studies,Development,Environment Studies,Politics 153pp 215 x 135mm Territories:ANZ All Rights: Zed Books