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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      24 August 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511760068
      9780521119535
      9781107675070
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760068
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Intellectual Property, Law
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    At the intersection of indigenous studies, science studies, and legal studies lies a tense web of political issues of vital concern for the survival of indigenous nations. Numerous historians of science have documented the vital role of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science as a part of statecraft, a means of extending empire. This book follows imperialism into the present, demonstrating how pursuit of knowledge of the natural world impacts, and is impacted by, indigenous peoples rather than nation-states. In extractive biocolonialism, the valued genetic resources, and associated agricultural and medicinal knowledge, of indigenous peoples are sought, legally converted into private intellectual property, transformed into commodities, and then placed for sale in genetic marketplaces. Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples critically examines these developments, demonstrating how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western knowledge systems continue to be shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of law.

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