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Village & the World - My Life, Our Times (Paperback)
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Village & the World - My Life, Our Times (Paperback)
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In retrospect, my life appears to me like a meandering river which
started out as a small stream in the mountains of the volcanic
Eifel. The stream eventually collected more waters, grew broader
and broader, and branched out into a huge network that now
encompasses the whole world. In this autobiography Maria Mies packs
in seventy-seven years of life: from the small German village of
her childhood, to the world of the Indian subcontinent. Sociologist
and women's studies researcher, scholar, ecofeminist, and
international activist against violence against women and
exploitation through globalisation, Maria Mies is one of the
world's original thinkers. Her achievements include developing
groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of
'housewifisation', the violence of colonisation and profound
writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement
of Investment, she fights the General Agreement on Trade in
Services, she fights against the patenting of life and tackles
reproductive and genetic engineering as well as food security, but
she never gives up hope that there is an alternative to present day
injustice and exploitation; that 'the good life' is possible. And
Maria never forgets her origins: Despite all my travels around the
world, I have never forgotten where I came from: from a peasant
family in a small village. This not only helped me keep my feet on
the ground, but also protected me from excessive romanticism and
quixotic idealism. I know that the food doesn't come from the
supermarket but from the soil.
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