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Wild Politics Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity Susan Hawthorne Price: $29.95 (Australian dollars), $39.95 (NZ dollars), $19.95 (US dollars), $32.95 (Canadian dollars), £13.95 (UK pounds) Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics draws on three decades of feminist activism and theorising. She looks at the tensions between globalisation and community, between disconnection and relationship. She argues that the impact of globalisation on women has been disastrous, and suggests that what we need is a new politics, one which puts biodiversity at the centre.

One of the many gifts of Susan Hawthorne's Wild Politics is the unrelenting analysis and illustration of ways neocolonialism is promoted under the banner of Western liberalism and economic globalisation. Bringing together research and auguments from hundreds of sources and taking up the work of feminists, ecologists, and indigenous peoples, she challenges globalization and argues for biodiverse sustainability. – Sarah Lucia Hoagland, The Women's Review of Books. "This is the book I wish I had written myself." - Our Paper "Susan Hawthorne’s book is a major contribution, on several levels, to the definition of what we are fighting for" – The Paper "Wild Politics is a great metaphor, signalling the need for change from western culture's false colonist universalism to life-oriented systems of connection, richness, texture, depth and meaning. Susan Hawthorne has written an inspiring book, drawing on feminist and indigenous knowledge to critique global capitalist practice and create a vision of a regenerative world sustaining the environment and all its people"– Prue Hyman "A work of breathtaking erudition" – Diane Bell "an impressive and far sighted book which is thoroughly, and very thoughtfully, researched. Susan Hawthorne writes with clarity, intelligence and humour" - Chain Reaction No 88 "Susan Hawthorne's Wild Politics – is passionate in conception and broad in scope. It is multi-layered and richly esoteric, in the best sense of this word. It bristles with ideas and possible strategies. Its sweeping and damning judgements and insistent focus on the closely related crises that are buikding in environmental and human afairs make it compulsive reading" - Allan Patience, Australian Book Review ‘In this incredibly compelling analysis of what is wrong with our world system today, she Color lays the foundations of how we could turn it around into a viable one, one in which life sharing, giving and exchange would replace violence, oppression and ultimately the destruction of the planet.’ - Evelyne Accad, Canadian Women’s Studies Journal Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF WESTERN GLOBAL CULTURE 17 CULTURAL LOGIC 23 DECOLONISING SCHOLARSHIP 26 BIODIVERSITY AND SEEDS 28 THE SEED OF CULTURE 31 WEAVING THE STRANDS 33 DEFINING THE WILD 35 CHAPTER ONE: THE PRINCIPLE OF DIVERSITY 43 BEGINNINGS 44 THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS 46 FEMINISM 47 CHANGE 51 CREATING FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE 52 WHO IS THE KNOWER? 58 STANDPOINT THEORY 64 ANALYSIS 65 SYNTHESIS 68 DISSOCIATION 70 ASSOCIATIVE THINKING 73 CHAPTER TWO: POWER AND KNOWLEDGE: GLOBAL MONOTONY OR LOCAL DIVERSITY? 77 POWER 77 THE POWER OF VIOLENCE 82 THE POWER OF REWARD 87 THE POWER OF BACKLASH 90 THE POWER OF OBSTACLES 92 THE POWER OF SYSTEMS 93 THE POWER OF ATTRACTION 96 THE POWER OF ATTITUDES 99 KNOWLEDGE 101 ASSIMILATION AND APPROPRIATION 103 A CLASH OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS 107 NOT SEEING 111 THE PERCEPTUAL GAP 112 HOW KNOWLEDGE IS VALUED 114 CULTURAL HOMOGENEITY 116 IN DEFENCE OF DIVERSITY 119 CHAPTER THREE: ONE GLOBAL ECONOMY OR DIVERSE DECOLONISED ECONOMIES? 123 THE LOGIC OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS 123 HOW WOMEN ARE (AC)COUNTED 135 ECONOMIC HOMOGENEITY AND GLOBALISATION 140 DECOLONISING ECONOMICS 149 FEMINIST ECONOMICS 152 ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 161 TOWARD A WILD ECONOMICS 167 CHAPTER FOUR: LAND AS RELATIONSHIP AND LAND AS POSSESSION 174 LAND AS RESOURCE OR RELATIONSHIP? 174 WILDERNESS 174 LAND 182 DEALING WITH WASTE 187 “FREEING” THE LAND, ENCLOSING THE COMMONS 188 FEMINIST CONCEPTIONS OF LAND 191 INDIGENOUS CONCEPTIONS OF LAND 194 LAND AS POSSESSION 198 TOURISM: LAND AND WILDERNESS AS COMMODITY 202 URBAN LAND 206 URBAN LAND AS WILD SPACE 209 STEPS TO DEVELOPING A WILD POLITICS OF LAND 212 CHAPTER FIVE: FARMING, FISHING AND FORESTRY: FROM SUBSISTENCE TO TERMINATOR TECHNOLOGY 216 FARMING IN KENYA AND NIGERIA 217 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA, THE USA, BANGLADESH AND SRI LANKA 227 FISHING IN THE PACIFIC 239 DIGITISED AND GLOBALISED FARMING: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS 243 THE KYOTO PROTOCOL, PLANTATION FORESTS AND TERMINATOR TREES 257 FISHING WILD FISH TO FEED DOMESTICATED FISH 262 THE COMMODIFICATION OF “EVERYTHING” 267 WOMEN AS KEEPERS OF ECOSYSTEMS 268 CHAPTER SIX: PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND WORK: GLOBAL AND LOCAL 270 PRODUCTION AND DISPARITY 270 CONSUMPTION AND DISPARITY 274 WORK AND DISPARITY 276 GLOBAL PRODUCTION 280 GLOBAL CONSUMPTION 289 GLOBAL WORK 299 LOCAL PRODUCTION 305 LOCAL CONSUMPTION 307 LOCAL WORK 309 MILITARY AS GROSS PRODUCER AND CONSUMER 316 CONCLUSION 317 CHAPTER SEVEN: MONOCULTURES AND MULTILATERAL TRADE RULES 321 PATENTS 321 MULTILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS AND THE SHAPE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 330 MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 332 THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO) 338 TRADE RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (TRIPS) 341 FOOD SECURITY 349 THE MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) 353 TRADITIONAL RESOURCE RIGHTS (TRRS) AND COMMUNITY INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS (CIRS) 358 HUMAN GENOME PROJECT (HGP) AND HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT (HGDP) 360 CONCLUSION 368 CHAPTER EIGHT: WILD POLITICS 370 WILD POLITICS: A VISION FOR THE NEXT 40,000 YEARS 376 ABBREVIATIONS 391 BIBLIOGRAPHY 394 Online poetry by Susan Hawthorne: The Animist - Poems from Bird Cyberpoetry - Unstopped Mouths Other books by Susan Hawthorne FICTION The Falling Woman co-editor and contributor of Moments of Desire co-editor and contributor of Angels of Power and other reproductive creations with Renate Klein co-editor and contributor of Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love with Cathie Dunsford and Susan Sayer coeditor of Moments of Desire: Sex and Sensuality by Australian Feminist Writers with Jenny Pausacker coeditor of The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand with Cathie Dunsford POETRY Bird and other writings on epilepsy NON-FICTION Wild Politics The Spinifex Quiz Book co-editor and contributor of Australia for Women: Travel and Culture with Renate Klein co-editor and contributor of September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives with Bronwyn Winter co-editor and contributor to CyberFeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity with Renate Klein co-editor and contributor of Cat Tales with Jan Fook and Renate Klein contributor to There is an Alternative contributor to Radically Speaking

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