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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mander, Jerry.

Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria.

International Forum on Globalization.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Economic conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Culture and globalization.

Globalization.

Anti-globalization movement.

Environmental degradation.

Physical Description:

261 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

[New expanded edition].

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books ; Los Angeles, Calif. : Distributed by University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

In this spirited book, best-selling author Jerry Mander partners with one of the world's most celebrated indigenous leaders, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, to gather powerful firsthand reports on a momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's indigenous peoples. With many of the planet's remaining natural resources on indigenous lands, traditional indigenous practices of biodiversity preservation have, ironically, made these lands targets for global corporations seeking the last forests, genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals to feed their unsustainable growth. Corporate invaders often employ military force, as well as harsh pressures from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. But native peoples refuse to be victims. Their stories of resistance and growing success are inspirational.

Contents:

Part 1 Culture Clash

1 Introduction: Globalization and the Assault on Indigenous Resources / Jerry Mander 3

2 Our Right to Remain Separate and Distinct / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz 13

3 Aspects of Traditional Knowledge and Worldview 23

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" / Jeanette Armstrong 35

5 Amautawasi Quechuan University / Luis Macas 41

Part 2 Globalization: Rules of the Game

6 World Bank and IMF Impacts on Indigenous Economies / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz 49

Box A Eight Impacts of IMF/World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs

7 How the World Trade Organization Diminishes Native Sovereignty / Victor Menotti 59

Box B Mayan Revolt at Cancun, 2003

8 High-Tech Invasion: Biocolonialism / Debra Harry 71

Box C Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology

9 Trips Agreement: From the Commons to Corporate Patents on Life / Vandana Shiva 81

Box D Whose Common Property?

Part 3 Diverse Impacts on Indigenous Peoples

10 Infrastructure Development in the South American Amazon / Janet Lloyd, Atossa Soltani, Kevin Koenig 89

11 Climate Change in the Arctic / Sheila Watt-Cloutier 97

12 A-Bombs to Star Wars-The Sixty-Years War on Marshall Islanders / Zohl de Ishtar 101

13 Global Water Wars / Antonio Juhasz 109

14 Sacred Objects, Art and Nature in a Global Economy / Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson 115

15 Conservation Refugees / Mark Dowie 123

16 Mixed Promises of Ecotourism / Suzanne York 133

Box E Toward an Indigenous Ecotourism

17 The Fall and Rise of a Native Language / E. Koohan Paik 139

18 Genetic Pollution of Mayan Corn / Suzanne York 145

Part 4 Focus on Extractive Industries

19 Ogoni People of Nigeria versus Big Oil / Oronto Douglas, Ike Okonta 153

20 The Philippine Mining Act of 1995 / Tehtebba and IFG 159

21 Briefing Reports / Tebtebba and IFG 163

Oil Development and the U'wa

Megaproject: Plan Puebla Panama

The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline and the Bagyeli

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 the Lihir

Box F Indigenous Peoples' Declaration on Extractive Industries

Part 5 Turning Points

22 Report from "The Heart of the Earth": Second Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples / Beverly Bell 181

23 Bolivia's Indigenous Revolution / Suzanne York 187

Box G Venezula's Constitutional Provisions on the "Rights of Indigenous Peoples"

24 Indian Country: "The Saudi Arabia of Wind" / Winona LaDuke 195

25 Indigenous Brief to WTO: How the Denial of Aboriginal Title Serves as an Illegal Export Subsidy / Arthur Manuel 203

26 The Prospect Ahead / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz 211

Box H Partial List of Institutional Gains, 1994-2004

Active Groups and Resources 231

United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 243

Indigenous Peoples' Seattle Declaration 248

The International Cancun Declaration of Indigenous Peoples 251

The Mataatua Declaration 254

The Kimberley Declaration 256

About the International Forum on Globalization 261.

Notes:

"International Forum on Globalization."

Rev. ed. of: Paradigm wars. San Francisco, Calif. : International Forum on Globalization, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1578051320

9781578051328

OCLC:

65205143

Publisher Number:

9781578051328

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