Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples - The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Laurelyn Whitt is a Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Integrated Studies at Utah Valley University. She has also held visiting appointments at the Department of Maori Studies, University of Auckland; the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University; the University of Notre Dame Law School; and Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Whitt is the co-author of The Bitter Fruit of American Justice (along with Alan W. Clarke) and the author of Interstices, a collection of poetry that won the 2005 Holland Poetry Prize. Klappentext This book examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power! the politics of property! and the apologetics of law. Zusammenfassung Examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power! the politics of property! and the apologetics of law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Biocolonialism as Imperial Science: 1. Imperialism then and now; 2. Indigenous knowledge, power and responsibilities; 3. Value-neutrality and value-bifurcation: the cultural politics of science; Part II. The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study: 4. The rhetoric of research justification; 5. Indigenist critiques of biocolonialism; Part III. Legitimation: The Rule and Role of Law: 6. The commodification of knowledge; 7. Intellectual property rights as means and mechanism of imperialism; 8. Transforming sovereignties; Conclusions: the politics of knowledge: resistance and recovery.

Product details

• Authors: Laurelyn Whitt, Laurelyn (Brandon University Whitt, Whitt Laurelyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521119535
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11953-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / History, Social & cultural history, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Comparative, intellectual property law, Law & society, Jurisprudence and general issues, Law and society, sociology of law