Paradigm wars : indigenous peoples' resistance to globalization

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

Mander, Jerry. (Added Author). Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria. (Added Author). International Forum on Globalization. (Added Author).

Summary:

Author and cultural critic Jerry Mander and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples. Many of the planet's dwindling resources are located on lands inhabited by native communities. This source explores the effect that The World Trade Organization and other global structures have affected these native lands. Paradigm Wars is the first major work to comprehensively illuminate this situation. In firsthand reports by twenty-five indigenous and nonindigenous writers, the book details the devastating impacts of extractive industries and bioprospecting, the degrading of cultural artifacts and languages, even the damage done by some well-meaning conservation groups. The book also highlights how indigenous communities are strongly resisting this onslaught, often with amazing success. Anyone concerned with environmental or social justice will find inspiration in their resistance.

Record details

ISBN: 1578051320
ISBN: 9781578051328
Physical Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Edition: [New expanded ed.].
Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; ©2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "International Forum on Globalization."

Revised edition of: Paradigm wars. San Francisco, Calif. : International Forum on Globalization, 2005.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: pt. 1. Culture clash -- 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 / 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 -- pt. 2. Globalization : rules of the game -- 6. World Bank and IMF impacts on indigenous economies / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Box A : eight impacts of IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programs -- 7. How the World Trade Organization diminishes native sovereignty / Victor Menotti -- Box B : Mayan revolt at Cancun, 2003 -- 8. High-tech invasion : biocolonialism / Debra Harry -- Box C : code of ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology -- 9. TRIPS Agreement : from the commons to corporate patents on life / Vandana Shiva -- Box D : whose common property? -- pt. 3. Diverse impacts on indigenous peoples -- 10. Infrastructure development in the South American Amazon / Janet Lloyd, Atossa Soltani, 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 dé 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 -- Box E : toward an indigenous ecotourism -- 17. The fall and rise of a native language / E. Koohan Paik -- 18. Genetic pollution of Mayan corn / Suzanne York.

pt. 4. Focus on extractive industries -- 19. Ogoni people of Nigeria versus Big Oil / Oronto Douglas, Ike Okonta -- 20. The Philippine Mining Act of 1995 / Tebtebba and IFG -- 21. Briefing reports / Tebtebba and IFG -- Oil development and the U'wa -- Megaproject : Plan Puebla Panama -- The Chad-Cameroon pipeline and the Bagyéli -- Oil and natural gas in Siberia and the Nenets -- Nuclear waste dumps and the Western Shoshone Nation -- Gold mining and the Western Shoshone -- A landmark legal case : Cobell v. Norton -- Gold in Borneo and the Dayak -- Transmigration, resources, Freeport McMoran, and genocide in West Papua -- Gold mining in Papua New Guinea and th Lihir -- Box F : indigenous peoples' declaration on extractive industries -- pt. 5. Turning points -- 22. Report from "the heart of the Earth" : Second Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples / Beverly Bell -- 23. Bolivia's indigenous revolution / Suzanne York -- Box G : Venezuela's constitutional provisions on the "rights of Indigenous peoples" -- 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 -- Box H : partial list of institutional gains, 1994-2004 -- 27. Epilogue : summary and final comments / Jerry Mander -- Appendixes -- Active groups and resources -- United Nations Draft Declaration on The Rights of Indigenous Peoples -- Indigenous Peoples' Seattle Declaration -- The International Cancun Declaration of Indigenous Peoples -- The Mataatua Declaration -- The Kimberley Declaration -- About the contributors -- About the International Forum on globalization.