Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and their Knowledge

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Cambridge University Press, 2014 M06 12
After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, and how the symbolic function of international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Peter Drahos examines the response of indigenous people to the colonizer's non-developmental property rights. The case studies reveal how they have adapted to the state's extractive order through a process of regulatory bricolage. In order to create a new developmental future for themselves, indigenous developmental networks have been forged - high trust networks that include partnerships with science. Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and their Knowledge argues for a developmental intellectual property order for indigenous people based on a combination of simple rules, principles and a process of regulatory convening.
 

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The nondevelopmental state
1
Cosmologys country
31
Loss
56
Symbolic recognition
69
Rules and the recognition of ancestors
94
big projects little projects
108
Secret plants
127
Paying peanuts for biodiversity
138
Gentle on Country gentle on people
154
Protecting Countrys cosmology
175
Trust in networks
202
References
221
Index
238
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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.

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