Contested properties : peoples, plants and politics in post-apartheid South Africa /

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Author / Creator:	Rutert, Britta, author.
Imprint:	Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Culture and social practice Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Subject:	Medicinal plants -- South Africa -- 1994- Biodiversity -- South Africa. Medicine -- Research -- South Africa. Intellectual property -- South Africa. Biodiversity. Intellectual property. Medicinal plants. Medicine -- Research. South Africa.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13360473

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ISBN:	9783839447949 3839447941 9783837647945
Notes:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 19, 2020).
Summary:	This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Bioprospecting, the use of genetic or biological resources for commercial purposes, is a profit-oriented enterprise facing new challenges with the rise of human rights and biodiversity politics. This new situation has led to claims for political leverage made by indigenous communities, as well as to claims for national and local cultural identity and heritage. The picture presented here contributes to the widely discussed yet so far unresolved question of how to appropriately share benefits, and how to protect indigenous knowledge in this field.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chapter I. Opening Pandora's Box: Bioprospecting in South Africa
Chapter II. Methodological, Theoretical and Spatial Reflections on Bioprospecting as a Field in Translation
Chapter III. Ambiguous Contact Zones: Politics, Economy and the Ethnographer
Chapter IV. "Our Knowledge Belongs to Our Ancestors": Topographies of Knowledge and the Question of Property
Chapter V. Transformative Science: From Muthi to Chemical Compound
Chapter VI. ABS
A Stony Path Towards Sharing: The Chances and Challenges of Access and Benefit Sharing
Chapter VII. Partial Solution: The Biocultural Community Protocol
Chapter VIII. Closing Pandora's Box: Conclusion
Bibliography

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