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Offering an exciting ride into how the world could be, this book is the one we have been waiting for. Feminists have long been saying we could do life differently, here is the local and global exploration of what needs to change, what must go and how together we can make a new reality. A visionary book with a focus on local and global politics and social movements, Wild Politics presents a powerful critique of global western culture. Susan Hawthorne unpicks the structures of power and knowledge, law and international trade rules, as well as probing issues that intimately affect our daily lives. Wild Politics concludes with a compelling vision for a world inspired by biodiversity

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Author:   Susan Hawthorne
Publisher:   Spinifex Press
Imprint:   Spinifex Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781925950687

ISBN 10:   1925950689
Pages:   484
Publication Date:   01 June 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Permissions Preface to the 2022 edition INTRODUCTION A Feminist Critique of Western Global Culture Cultural Logic Decolonising Scholarship Biodiversity and Seeds The Seed of Culture Weaving the Strands Defining the Wild CHAPTER ONE The Principle of Diversity Beginnings Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis Feminism Change Creating Feminist Knowledge Who is the Knower? Standpoint Theory Analysis Synthesis Dissociation Associative Thinking CHAPTER TWO Power and Knowledge: Global Monotony or Local Diversity? Power The Power of Violence The Power of Reward The Power of Backlash The Power of Obstacles The Power of Systems The Power of Attraction The Power of Attitudes Knowledge Assimilation and Appropriation A Clash of Knowledge Systems Not seeing The Perceptual Gap How Knowledge is Valued Cultural Homogeneity In Defence of Diversity CHAPTER THREE One Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies? The Logic of Neoclassical Economics How Women Are (ac)Counted Economic Homogeneity and Globalisation Decolonising Economics Feminist Economics Ecological Economics Toward a Wild Economics CHAPTER FOUR Land as Relationship and Land as Possession Land as resource or relationship? Wilderness Land Dealing with Waste ""Freeing"" the Land, Enclosing the Commons Feminist conceptions of land Indigenous conceptions of land Land as possession Tourism: land and wilderness as commodity Urban land Urban land as wild space Steps to developing a wild politics of land CHAPTER FIVE Farming, Fishing and Forestry: from subsistence to terminator technology Farming in Kenya and Nigeria Forestry in Lithuania, the USA, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Fishing in the Pacific Digitised and globalised farming: what the future holds The Kyoto Protocol, plantation forests and Terminator Trees Fishing wild fish to feed domesticated fish The commodification of ""everything"" Women as keepers of ecosystems CHAPTER SIX Production, consumption and work: global and local Production and disparity Consumption and disparity Work and disparity Global production Global consumption Global work Local production Local consumption Local work Military as gross producer and consumer Conclusion CHAPTER SEVEN Monocultures and multilateral trade rules Patents Multilateral trade agreements and the shape of international law Multilateral trade negotiations and the convention on biological diversity The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Food security The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs) Human Genome Project (HGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) Conclusion CHAPTER EIGHT Wild Politics Wild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years Appendix Tables 1. World’s 100 largest economic entities (2001) 2. Companies, countries and name changes 3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversity Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography

Reviews

A work of breathtaking erudition. -- Diane Bell 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 its people. -- Prue Hyman, author Women and Economics Wild Politics demonstrates that there are richly feminist ways of philosophising ... A powerful feminist sensibility ... informs every line in the book -- Allan Patience, Australian Book Review

Author Information

Susan Hawthorne joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973. She quickly volunteered at Melbourne's Rape Crisis Centre and was active in student politics. She has organised writers' festivals, been an aerialist in two women's circuses and written on topics as diverse as war, friendship with animals, and mythic traditions. She writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry and her books have been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent non-fiction is Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy. She has taught English to Arabic-speaking women, worked in Aboriginal education and had teaching roles across a number of subject areas in universities including Philosophy, Women's Studies, Literature, Publishing Studies and Creative Writing. She is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville. She has won awards in writing, publishing, the gay and lesbian community and in 2017 was winner of the Penguin Random House Best Achievement in Writing in the Inspire Awards for her work increasing people's awareness of disability.

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