Staying alive women ecology and development author vandana shiva edition illustrated reprint publisher zed books 1988 isbn 0862328233 9780862328238 length 224 pages subjects. Staying alive women ecology and development by vandana shiva 417 rating details 423 ratings 31 reviews vandana shiva is one of the worlds most prominent radical scientists in staying alive she defines the links between ecological crises colonialism and the oppression of women it is a scholarly and polemical plea for the . Staying alive makes clear why this development paradigm implemented through enclosure privatization corporate piracy marginalization and violence is more accurately characterized as maldevelopment and how it is inexorably dragging the world down a path of self destruction prescient and fiercely relevant this pioneering work illuminates how women more than surviving the crises brought on by development are creating and safeguarding vital sources of knowledge and vision on not . Staying alive women ecology and development staying alive inspired by womens struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival award winning environmentalist vandana