Tables, Photos, Figures and Cartoons |
13 |
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 negotations 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 |