LABR 2P96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, Crop Diversity

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 2P96
• Professor: Ana Isla

Document Summary

The development paradigm has the inability to cope with difference that leads to the displacement of extinction of biodiversity in the biological world. Destruction of diversity and the creation of monocultures becomes an imperative for capitalist patriarchy. Gender politics is a politics of difference. The criterion of commercial value reduces diversity to a deficiency. Di(cid:448)e(cid:396)sit(cid:455) is the (cid:271)asis of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s politi(cid:272)s a(cid:374)d the politi(cid:272)s of e(cid:272)olog(cid:455) Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of (cid:271)iodi(cid:448)e(cid:396)sit(cid:455) has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:396)e(cid:374)de(cid:396)ed as (cid:374)o(cid:374)-work and non- k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge. The i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:396)ises f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:396)edu(cid:272)tio(cid:374)ist approach to development. Biodiversity is a relational not a reductionist category. Conserving biodiversity implies conserving the relationship from which balance and harmony derives. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of food p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) is i(cid:374)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) the(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e skills a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of production and preparation of plant foods, seeds, soil. The know weather conditions, diseases, pruning, staking, water supplies, predator, soil maintenance, propagation. They are experts in breeding and feeding of farm animals.