Biopiracy or bioprospecting: negotiating the limits of propertization
2017 (English)In: Property, place and piracy / [ed] Martin Fredriksson, James Arvanitakis, London: Routledge, 2017, p. 174-186Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This chapter takes the Nagoya Protocol a UN protocol aiming to prevent biopiracy as an example to discuss how the negotiations over biopatents also reflect different approaches to commodification of nature and the limits of propertization. These practical problems can potentially be addressed through legislation. The chapter looks at such an initiative on an international level. Another limitation to the Nagoya Protocol is that it does not address the core issue of biopiracy; that is, patents and intellectual property rights in general. It argues that property relates to place in a very specific manner in the context of nuclear testing. Indigenous Australians were hence doubly denied access to the Australian nation: because they held no title to the land, and because they were not given citizenship rights which would extend to them the rights and protection which any nation grants to its citizens.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2017. p. 174-186
Series
Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
Keywords [en]
Biopiracy, bioprospecting, patents, colonialism, indigenous rights
National Category
Cultural Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-142515Libris ID: dt79wfh4bm7mkkxtISBN: 9781138745131 (print)ISBN: 9780367735654 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-142515DiVA, id: diva2:1153590
Projects
Commons and Commodities: Knowledge, Natural Resources and the Construction of Porperty
Funder
Swedish Research Council, E0633901EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions Cofund Project INCA 600398
Note
Table of Contents
Introduction: Property, Place & Piracy, Martin Fredriksson Almqvist and James Arvanitakis
Chapter 1: Commons, Piracy and the Crisis of Property, James Arvanitakis, Spike Boydell and Martin Fredriksson Almqvist
Chapter 2: The Concept of the Commons in the age of extractionism: From sea to land to code, Martin Fredriksson Almqvist
Chapter 3: Property, sovereignty, piracy and the commons: early modern enclosure and the foundation of the state, Sean Johnson Andrews
Chapter 4: Unreal Property: Anarchism, Anthropology and Alchemy, Jonathan Marshall & Francesca da Rimini
Chapter 5: Piracy and Mobility in Anglophone Atlantic Literature and Culture, Alexandra Ganser
Chapter 6: An Attack to the Growth of the Imperial Body: John Locke, Colonial Piracy, and Property, Sonja Schillings
Chapter 7: Piracy and the maritime commons, Amedeo Policante
Chapter 8: Compensation in the Absence of Punishment: Rethinking Somali Piracy as a Form of Maritime Xeer, Brittany Gilmer
Chapter 9: Creation and protection of private property rights by the state: an Australian case study, Ingrid Matthews
Chapter 10: The Knitting Pirate: Craft as Resistance and Property Intervention, Johanna Dahlin
Chapter 11: Piracy on the celestial frontier? The ‘NewSpace’ quest for the privatisation of the outer space commons, Matthew Johnson
Chapter 12: Outer Space Property and Piracy, Kim Ellis
Chapter 13: 'The Ancestry Land': Land Reclamation and China’s Pursuit of Dominance in the South China Sea, Jingdong Yuan
Chapter 14: Nuclear Testing and the 'Terra Nullius Doctrine': From Life Sciences to Life Writing, Mita Banerjee
Chapter 15: Biopiracy or bioprospecting: Negotiating the limits of propertization, Martin Fredriksson Almqvist
Chapter 16: Pirate Places in Bangkok: the regulation of the urban vendor and market/mall-spaces, Daniel F. Robinson and Duncan McDuie-Ra
Chapter 17: Gated Housing Enclaves in Ghana: Property, People, and Place, Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Chapter 18: The Real Gruen Transfer - Enclosing the Right to the City, James Arvanitakis and Spike Boydell
Chapter 19: Epilogue, Martin Fredriksson Almqvist and James Arvanitakis
2017-10-312017-10-312022-08-18Bibliographically approved