The corporate control of life = Die Kontrolle von Konzernen über das Leben / Vandana Shiva.

Main entry:

Shiva, Vandana.

Title & Author:

The corporate control of life = Die Kontrolle von Konzernen über das Leben / Vandana Shiva.

Publication:

Description:

1 online resource (25 pages).

Series:

100 notes--100 thoughts = 100 Notizen--100 Gedanken ; no. 012

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Documenta (13), to be held in September 2012.
Intro -- English / The Corporate Control of Life -- Deutsch / Die Kontrolle von Konzernen über das Leben
Parallel text in English and German.

Summary:

"Indian physicist and activist Vandana Shiva (b.1952) demonstrates in a matter-of-fact way how corporations gain control over our lives. The patenting of life -- from bacteria and plants to cloned animals with certain genetic characteristics -- implies the reification and commercialization of life. An agreement of the World Trade Organization allows corporations to patent nearly everything we can imagine. One of the repercussions is biopiracy, the reclaiming of ancient traditional use and breeding of plants as the corporations' own "invention", as Shiva shows through the examples of the neem tree and basmati rice. The monopolization of seeds has forced farmers in large parts of India into dependence on corporations, which undermines the farmers' basis of living."--Publisher's website

Resources:
EBSCOhost

ISBN:

3775730419
9783775730419 (electronic bk.)
9783775728614
3775728619

Subject:

Biopiracy India.
Patents Social aspects India.
Biopiratage Inde.
Biopiracy
India

Added entries:

Documenta (Exhibition) (13th : 2012 : Kassel, Germany)
100 notes--100 thoughts ; no. 012.

Kontrolle von Konzernen über das Leben
Vandana Shiva

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