Vandana Shiva
The Corporate Control of Life: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 012 (100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series (13))
2011
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Indian physicist and activist Vandana Shiva addresses corporate biopiracy in which plants, for example, can be claimed as a corporation's own invention. Shiva discusses the examples of the neem tree and basmati rice.
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Vandana Shiva
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A major figurehead of the alter-globalization movement as well as a major role player in global Ecofeminism, Dr. Vandana Shiva is recipient to several awards for her services in human rights, ecology and conservation. Receiving her Ph.D in physics at the University of Western Ontario in 1978, Dr. Vandana Shivas attentions were quickly drawn towards ecological concerns.
