International Journal of Communication, Languages & Literature
Online ISSN : 2581-3625
Frequency : Half Yearly
Current Issue : Volume 8 , Issue 1
2025
Kiran Meena , Dr. Atiqa Kelsy
*Kiran Meena, Research scholar, Department of English, University of Rajasthan, 302004
**Dr. Atiqa kelsy, Assistant professor, Department of English, St. Xavier's College, Jaipur
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15860489 Page No : 50-59
Published Online : 2025-06-30
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ABSTRACT
This study looks into a particular criticism of Vandana Shiva, focusing on her work "Staying Alive." The work portrays her critique regarding the Western development paradigm and policies using postcolonial ecofeminist and decolonial lenses. It analyzes how Shiva interrogates and responds to the Western narratives of progress, growth, and modernization. In a close reading of her text, the paper tries to demonstrate her arguments that explain how development, as crafted and executed by the West, is overtly patriarchal and ecologically suicidal while waged as colonialistic subjugation against the South. The analysis also considers Shiva's argument for an ecological vision of development suggesting that such a construct should be based on the biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and women's socio-ecological dominion. This research examines the sustainable development discourse, focusing on understanding sustainability in the context of postcolonial theory while exploring ecofeminism.
Keywords: Decolonization, Ecofeminism, Development Paradigm, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainability
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