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Paradigm wars : indigenous peoples' resistance to globalization / edited by Jerry Mander and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books , 2006.Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1578051320
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.482 MAN

1. Introduction : globalization and the assault on indigenous resources / Jerry Mander
2. Our right to remain separate and distinct / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
3. Aspects of traditional knowledge and worldview
The people belong to the land / Winona LaDuke, Subsistence and materialism and John Mohawk
The whole planet is the holy land / Leslie Gray
Indigenous ecological knowledge / Darrell Posey
4. Community : "sharing one skin" / Jeannette Armstrong
5. Amautawasi Quechuan University / Luis Macas
6. World Bank and IMF impacts on indigenous economies / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
7. How the World Trade Organization diminishes native sovereignty / Victor Menotti
8. High-tech invasion : biocolonialism / Debra Harry
9. TRIPS Agreement : from the commons to corporate patents on life / Vandana Shiva
10. Infrastructure development in the South American Amazon / Janet Lloyd, Atossa Soltani and Kevin Koenig
11. Climate change in the Arctic / Sheila Watt-Cloutier
12. A-bombs to Star Wars - the sixty-years war on Marshall Islanders / Zohl de Ishtar
13. Global water wars / Antonia Juhasz
14. Sacred objects, art and nature in a global economy / Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson
15. Conservation refugees / Mark Dowie
16. Mixed promises of ecotourism / Suzanne York
17. The fall and rise of a native language / E. Koohan Paik
18. Genetic pollution of Mayan corn / Suzanne York
19. Ogoni people of Nigeria versus big oil / Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta
20. The Philippine Mining Act of 1995 / Tebtebba and IFG
21. Briefing reports / Tebtebba and IFG
22. Report from "The Heart of the Earth" : Second Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples / Beverly Bell
23. Bolivia's indigenous revolution / Suzanne York
24. Indian country : "the Saudi Arabia of wind" / Winona LaDuke
25. Indigenous brief to WTO : how the denial of aboriginal title serves as an illegal export subsidy / Arthur Manuel
26. The prospect ahead / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
27. Epilogue : summary and final comments / Jerry Mander.

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