The Earth is female – Vandana Shiva
Posted by Wilma Massucco on October 25, 2010 under Interviews, Video | 
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Vandana Shiva , eco feminist, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for placing women and ecology at the heart of modern development discourse, advocates against the prevalent “patriarchal logic of exclusion”, claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner. She says: “Usually women are not in the main stream of society (as the men), and that’s the reason why they can think differently, and act differently. They act in defense of nature and in defense of society. Every day they have to clean the house, to care the babies, …. and this gives them a training in persistence”.
Starting from this perspective, Vandana believes that conceiving the Earth as a female is very important, as it moves to the concept of Earth as a Mother, i.e. not just as dead and inert and only as a source of raw materials to be exploited, but as a generative force, to be respected and loved.
In this interview she also describes her ideas about International Cooperation and Development. She also gives some examples, taken from her experience, about the way how common people can make a successful opposition to big economic powers, like the Multinationals Companies, when they’re damaging the environment and working for exploitation of natural resources.
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