Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred. In Paradigm Wars, he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples.
Many of the planet's dwindling resources are located on lands inhabited by native communities. Those resources are now the direct target of giant global corporations who desperately need them to fuel their own unsustainable growth. The World Trade Organization and other global structures of trade and finance have written the rules of trade to make life easier for these corporate resource-hunters--accelerating the loss of native lands, autonomy, and rights and creating millions of refugees.
Paradigm Wars is the first major work to comprehensively illuminate this shameful scenario. In firsthand reports by twenty-five indigenous and nonindigenous writers, the book details the devastating impacts of extractive industries and bioprospecting, the degrading of cultural artifacts and languages, even the damage done by some well-meaning conservation groups. The book also highlights how indigenous communities are strongly resisting this onslaught, often with amazing success. Anyone concerned with environmental or social justice will find inspiration in their resistance.
Paradigm wars have been discussed as holding a set of beliefs concerning how to research scientifically.
The following essay acknowledges the diverging assumptions underlying the different paradigms associated with quantitative and qualitative research.
An overview of film studies
Contrasting Mainstream Neoclassical Economics vs Radical Political Economy in terms of core principles, methods of scientific inquiry and applications to current issues; fundamental differences explored.
Introduction The pursuit of scientific research is characterized by different paradigms, meaning “the entire ... Did the two quality indicators thus become victims of what Gage dubbed the “paradigm wars” (Gage 1989)? This essay argues ...
Researchers wanting to learn how to think about and utilize mixed methods in their studies will find this an indispensable guide for their work.
This volume aims to operationalize General John R. Galvin's call for a new paradigm to fight the most prevalent form of conflict in the world today-insurgency.
Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war.
Thus , the increased legitimacy of qualitative research methods , the increase in the number of paradigms that could be associated with qualitative research methods , and the unpopularity of the paradigm wars all were factors that led ...
On 4 June, the OAS Ad Hoc Committee led by Ellsworth Bunker arrived in Santo Domingo. From the outset, Bunker made it clear that he was his "own man," not an agent of the State Department, and that his dual status as the committee's ...