Wild Politics

Susan Hawthorne joined the Women's Liberation Movement in 1973. She quickly volunteered at Melbourne's Rape Crisis Centre and was active in student politics. She has organised writers' festivals, been an aerialist in two women's circuses and written on topics as diverse as war, friendship with animals, and mythic traditions. She writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry and her books have been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent non-fiction is Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy. She has taught English to Arabic-speaking women, worked in Aboriginal education and had teaching roles across a number of subject areas in universities including Philosophy, Women's Studies, Literature, Publishing Studies and Creative Writing. She is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at James Cook University, Townsville. She has won awards in writing, publishing, the gay and lesbian community and in 2017 was winner of the Penguin Random House Best Achievement in Writing in the Inspire Awards for her work increasing people's awareness of disability.

A work of breathtaking erudition.—Diane Bell

• AcknowledgementsPermissionsPreface to the 2022 edition INTRODUCTIONA Feminist Critique of Western Global CultureCultural LogicDecolonising ScholarshipBiodiversity and SeedsThe Seed of CultureWeaving the StrandsDefining the Wild CHAPTER ONEThe Principle of DiversityBeginningsThesis, Antithesis, SynthesisFeminismChangeCreating Feminist KnowledgeWho is the Knower?Standpoint TheoryAnalysisSynthesisDissociationAssociative Thinking CHAPTER TWOPower and Knowledge: Global Monotony or Local Diversity?PowerThe Power of ViolenceThe Power of RewardThe Power of BacklashThe Power of ObstaclesThe Power of SystemsThe Power of AttractionThe Power of AttitudesKnowledgeAssimilation and AppropriationA Clash of Knowledge SystemsNot seeingThe Perceptual GapHow Knowledge is ValuedCultural HomogeneityIn Defence of Diversity CHAPTER THREEOne Global Economy or Diverse Decolonised Economies?The Logic of Neoclassical EconomicsHow Women Are (ac)CountedEconomic Homogeneity and GlobalisationDecolonising EconomicsFeminist EconomicsEcological EconomicsToward a Wild Economics CHAPTER FOURLand as Relationship and Land as PossessionLand as resource or relationship?WildernessLandDealing with Waste"Freeing" the Land, Enclosing the CommonsFeminist conceptions of landIndigenous conceptions of landLand as possessionTourism: land and wilderness as commodityUrban landUrban land as wild spaceSteps to developing a wild politics of land CHAPTER FIVEFarming, Fishing and Forestry: from subsistence to terminator technologyFarming in Kenya and NigeriaForestry in Lithuania, the USA, Bangladesh and Sri LankaFishing in the PacificDigitised and globalised farming: what the future holdsThe Kyoto Protocol, plantation forests and Terminator TreesFishing wild fish to feed domesticated fishThe commodification of "everything"Women as keepers of ecosystems CHAPTER SIXProduction, consumption and work: global and localProduction and disparityConsumption and disparityWork and disparityGlobal productionGlobal consumptionGlobal workLocal productionLocal consumptionLocal workMilitary as gross producer and consumerConclusion CHAPTER SEVENMonocultures and multilateral trade rulesPatentsMultilateral trade agreements and the shape of international lawMultilateral trade negotiations and the convention on biological diversityThe World Trade Organisation (WTO)Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)Food securityThe Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)Traditional Resource Rights (TRRs) and Community Intellectual Rights (CIRs)Human Genome Project (HGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP)Conclusion CHAPTER EIGHTWild PoliticsWild Politics: A vision for the next 40,000 years AppendixTables1. World’s 100 largest economic entities (2001)2. Companies, countries and name changes3. Areas of highest cultural and biological diversityGlossaryAbbreviationsBibliography