Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and Their Knowledge

List of contents

1. The non-developmental state; 2. Cosmology's country; 3. Loss; 4. Symbolic recognition; 5. Rules and the recognition of ancestors; 6. The Kimberley: big projects, little projects; 7. Secret plants; 8. Paying peanuts for biodiversity; 9. Gentle on country, gentle on people; 10. Protecting country's cosmology; 11. Trust in networks.

About the author

Peter Drahos is a professor at the Australian National University and holds a Chair in Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

Summary

After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, how international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge and the networked response of indigenous people to this enclosure.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Drahos, Professor Peter Drahos
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781107686946
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68694-6
• No. of pages: 261
• Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Law, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, comparative law, intellectual property law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law