Maria Mies

Maria Mies (* 1931 in Steffeln ) is a German sociologist . She has published feminist , ecological and development-policy books that have received international attention. She is professor emerita at Cologne University of Applied Sciences . She is still known and active as a strict opponent of globalization and belongs to feministAttac, an Attac network of women .

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Mies is the seventh of twelve siblings and grew up in the Vulkaneifel . In the 1960s, Maria Mies worked for five years at the Goethe Institute in India . She has been active in the women's movement and women's research since the late 1960s . In 1979 she founded the focus on Women and Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague ( Netherlands ) . Her main research interests: methods of women's studies , rural women in the First and Third World , capitalism and subsistence , criticism of genetic engineering , alternatives to the globalized economy . The philosopher Annegret Stopczyk writes about her in her book Sophias Leib : “Maria Mies, a professor who exercised radical criticism of science in the 1970s and called for the 'subjective factor' of researchers (1984), has been violently attacked and isolated by career women who are immanent in science . “The belligerent and belligerent intellectual retired in 1993, but is still active in the feminist and globalization-critical movement, for example at Attac Cologne - although, unlike many fellow campaigners , for example at Attac , she attaches importance to not being a globalization critic , but an opponent of globalization to be mentioned, because it takes the approach of localizing instead of globalizing .

Maria Mies in Germany, the committee opposition to the May co-founded, for the first time on the West German public OECD treaties Multilateral Agreement on Investment has informed (MAI). This eventually fell after France had distanced itself from it. Similar goals are still pursued through the WTO Agreement on the Privatization of Services and Public Goods ( GATS ). Mies' criticism is directed against the inadequate democratic control of international financial and trade institutions such as the WTO, IMF and World Bank , but also the EU , which is leading to global impoverishment. In general, it made an early contribution to the international networking of the movement critical of globalization. Since the late 1990s she has been particularly concerned with the connection between neoliberal , corporate-controlled globalization and the new permanent wars . She is married to Saral Sarkar .

She is one of the initiators of the “Cologne appeal against computer violence”, which called for a ban on “ killer games ”.

Publications

• Indian women between patriarchy and equal opportunities. Conflicts of roles between students and working women . 1st edition. Verlag Anton Hain, 1973, ISBN 3-445-01042-0 (dissertation at the philosophical faculty of the University of Cologne, 1971 under the title “Role Conflicts of Educated Indian Women”).
• Lace Makers of Narsapur. Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market. Zed Books, London 1982, ISBN 0-86232-032-1 .
• Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. Women in the International Division of Labor new edition. Zed Books, London 1999, ISBN 1-85649-735-6 . (First edition: Zed Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-86232-341-X )
• Chernobyl changed our lives. On the exit of women. Marina Gambaroff, Maria Mies, Annegret Stopczyk. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-499-15922-8 . (rororo current)
• Women, the last colony. To housewifeize work. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-499-12239-1 (With V. Bennholdt-Thomsen and C. von Werlhof .)
• Patriarchy and capital. bge-verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-945432-01-3 (new edition with current foreword.)
• Against the industrialization of life. A feminist critique of genetic and reproductive technology. Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1992, ISBN 3-89085-475-3 .

• A cow for Hillary. The subsistence perspective. Verlag Frauenoffensive, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88104-294-6 (with V. Bennholdt-Thomsen)
• License to plunder. The Multilateral Agreement on Investment MAI . Globalization of corporate domination - and what we can do about it. (Ed. With Claudia von Werlhof ; with further contributions by Carla Boulboullé, Tony Clarke , Martin Khor and others) first 1999, EVA 2003, ISBN 3-434-46194-9 .
• Globalization from below. The new fight against economic inequality. New edition. Rotbuch, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-53084-3 (first edition: 2001)
• War without borders. The new colonization of the world. 1st edition. PapyRossa, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89438-286-4 (collection of articles; with a contribution by Claudia von Werlhof; review )
• The village and the world. Life stories - contemporary stories. PapyRossa, Cologne 2008 ISBN 978-3-89438-387-9
• Seeds of social movements. Women's movements and other movements in Bangladesh and worldwide by Farida Akhter, edited and with a foreword by Maria Mies, Centaurus Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86226-032-4 .
• Maria Mies; Vandana Shiva : Ecofeminism. The liberation of women, nature and oppressed peoples. Completely revised and updated new edition. AG-SPAK-Bücher, Neu-Ulm 2016 (first edition. Ökofeminismus. Rotpunkt, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85869-122-4 ).

See also

• Housewifeization
• Subsistence

literature

• Ilse Lenz : The New Women's Movement in Germany. Farewell to the small difference . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14729-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Maria Mies in the catalog of the German National Library
• Professors for special tasks in retirement. In: Cologne University of Applied Sciences: Faculty for Applied Social Sciences (web site). March 12, 2007, accessed March 12, 2008 . 
• Maria Mies: The crisis as an opportunity - To get out of the logic of accumulation. In: Res Strehle u. a .: Crisis - which crisis? Zurich 1995.
• Maria Mies: From the license to plunder to the license to kill. The connection between global free trade and war. 2001.
• Maria Mies: Brief description of the localization instead of globalization approach . In: SiG . 31, 2004.
• Maria Mies: The subsistence perspective. Lecture, Cologne 2005.
• Men do not embody the ideal image of man

credentials

1. ↑ Ilona Plattner and a .: feministAttac. (No longer available online.) In: Attac Germany. April 15, 2005, archived from the original on February 17, 2005 ; Retrieved March 12, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen: The house call: Pick up what falls at your feet . In: The daily newspaper: taz . October 26, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 13, 2018]).
3. ↑ Annegret Stopczyk: Sophias Leib. Unleashing Wisdom. A philosophical departure. 1st edition. Carl-Auer-Systeme, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-89670-025-1 , p. 67.
4. ↑ Call up on the website of the Society for Scientific Discussion Psychotherapy ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.