SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Vandana Shiva, Settler Colonialism, Exploitation Colonialism
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Globalization is not the cross-cultural interaction of di-verse societies; it is the imposition of a particular culture on all of the others. Nor is globalization the search for ecological bal-ance on a planetary scale. It is the predation of one class, one race, and often one gender of a single species on all of the oth ers. The global" in the dominant discourse is the political space in which the dominant local seeks global control, freeing itself of responsibility for the limits arising from the impera-tives of ecological sustainability and social justice. In this sense, the global does not represent a universal human interest; it represents a particular local and parochial interest and culture that has been globalized through its reach and control, its irre sponsibility and lack of reciprocity. (vandana. She developed a perspective that draws from feminist and conflict theory. Sphere of people controlled by a small group of people.
