Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen is Director of the Institute of the Theory and Practice of Subsistence (ITPS) at Bielefeld, Germany. She is a visiting professor at the University for Soil Culture in Vienna, Austria. She has undertaken research in Mexico and Germany, specifically on Sustainable Regional Economics in East Westphalia. Her publications include work on Women's Studies, Peasant Studies, Social Anthropology and the matriarchal community of Jucitan, Mexico.
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Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Nicholas Faraclas
Claudia von Werlhof
This thought-provoking collection of essays from radical speakers from around the world moves beyond criticism of the current trends of globalization and deregulation to challenge Thatcher-inspired economic rationalists with both theoretical and practical alternatives for our world. If there is no alternative to corporate globalization, doesn’t that mean this society, and our current military struggles are as good as life is going to get?
Inspired by the ground-breaking work of Maria Mies and her colleagues in developing the elaboration of the ‘subsistence perspective’, There is an Alternative defies popular Western thought with concrete cases of resistance to globalization in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific. Anyone who refuses to believe that corporate globalization 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 interest of the world’s people.
Featuring pieces by Vandana Shiva, Christa Muller, Gustavo Esteva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Fradia Akhter, Theresa Wolfwood, Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein.
2001 | ISBN 9781876756178 | Paperback | 210 x 137 mm | 240 pp