SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vandana Shiva, Bioprospecting, European 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. Globalization is not the mixing of cultures, but rather one culture that feeds into others. Globalization is not new, but rather there are stages. Colonialism: a form of domination where a central power directly rules over a peripheral power through economic, military, and political force. In 1492 -- christopher columbus anchored on the island of 30 000 indigenous people and completely decimated the community there.
