On October 23, 2009, OSU will welcome physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer, and science policy advocate, Dr. Vandana Shiva to campus. Dr. Shiva will speak at LaSells Stewart Center, at 7pm. In addition, a conference on the intersection of environmental justice and women’s lives, Earth Democracy: Women, Justice, and Ecology, will be held [...]
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Dr. Vandana Shiva to Speak at Oregon State University
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Dr. Vandana Shiva and Feminist Theory
Posted in Vandana Shiva, tagged agriculture, biodiversity, biography, chipko, ecofeminism, environment, feminine principle, feminism, GATT, Green Revolution, IMF, india, monsanto, Navdanya, patriarchy, seeds, subsistence, Vandana Shiva, women, World Bank, WTO on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Rachel Brinker
In Hindi, chipko means, “to embrace.” The Chipko Movement in India became one of the most successful environmental activism struggles in the world. Vandana Shiva was one of the women involved in this movement, which resisted industrial forestry and logging in rural India. Local women physically put their bodies between the machinery and [...]
