Terra Viva with Vandana Shiva

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Vandana Shiva is an activist and tireless advocate for food sovereignty for farmers', peasants', and women's rights. She's a world-renowned ecofeminist, anti-globalization thinker and scholar, a Right Livelihood Award Laureate; and the author of several books including Reclaiming the Commons, Earth Democracy, Oneness vs. the 1%, Stolen Harvest, and most recently a memoir, Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements.

In this conversation, Vandana Shiva weaves together stories of her life with a critical examination of our current economic system along with inspiring stories of non-violent grassroots actions to protect and preserve the health and well-being of people and the planet.

How can we reject the spread of hierarchy and division and begin reclaiming our right to live free, think free, breathe free, and eat free? How can we go upstream to decolonize all the spheres of our lives and focus on strengthening and revitalizing the commons? These are just some of the questions we explore in this Conversation.

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1:05.4	Working in the nuclear training, you know, in the classified reactor makes your head high.
1:21.0	You get an addiction because you have a social roommate that these disciplines are superior,
1:26.8	that as a scientist, you are superior. And I'd go to these villages and hear the women
1:32.0	knew everything and I knew nothing about the plants. And I became humble. So I learned by
1:37.6	diversity, I learned the relationships of humans and people, I learned the relationship of economy
1:44.0	and ecology. Through direct practice, and more importantly, I learned that you cannot think
1:51.6	you are smarter than others just because you've got a degree. That everyone is a knowledgeable person.
1:57.4	And I became very, very aware of epistemic hierarchies and epistemic democracy. And my life
2:05.7	has been a practice of epistemic democracy. The plant has intelligence, the peasant has intelligence,
2:11.6	the soil has intelligence. You work with that intelligence. That's normal. You are listening
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