Free Knowledge
Subtitle: Confronting the Commodification of Human Discovery
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 4 April 2015
Place of publication: Regina, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780889773653; 9780889773660
Table of contents: label: Prologue
title: Free Knowledge, Seeds, and Other Beings
pagenum: Brewster Kneen; label: Introduction
title: Introduction
pagenum: Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl H. Hepting; label: Part 1
title: Knowledge for Profit: The Commodification of Education and Research; label: Chapter 1
title: Higher Education or Education for Hire? Corporatization and the Threat to Democratic Thinking
pagenum: Joel Westheimer; label: Chapter 2
title: Privatized Knowledge and the Pharmaceutical Industry
pagenum: Sally Mahood; label: Chapter 3
title: Pseudo-Evidence-Based Medicine: When Biomedical Research Becomes an Adjunct of Pharmaceutical Marketing
pagenum: Arthur Schafer; label: Chapter 4
title: The Privatization of Knowledge in Canada’s Universities and What We Should Do About It
pagenum: Claire Polster; label: Part 2
title: Knowledge for People: Examples of Alternative Praxis; label: Chapter 5
title: The Canadian Co-operative Movement and the Promise of Knowledge Democracy
pagenum: Mitch Diamantopoulos; label: Chapter 6
title: Liberating Our Public Airwaves: Sounding Off!
pagenum: Marian van der Zon; label: Chapter 7
title: Action Research as Academic Reform: The Challenges and Opportunities of Shared Knowledge
pagenum: Patricia W. Elliott; label: Part 3
title: Knowledge Sovereignty: Indigenous Resistances and Resiliencies; label: Chapter 8
title: Indigenous Knowledge: A K’iche-Mayan Perspective
pagenum: Leonzo Barreno; label: Chapter 9
title: Gnaritas Nullius (No One's Knowledge): The Essence of Traditional Knowledge and Its Colonization through Western Legal Regimes
pagenum: Gregory Younging; label: Chapter 10
title: Renegotiated Relationships and New Understandings: Indigenous Protocols
pagenum: Jane Anderson and Gregory Younging; label: Part 4
title: Reframing the Future: Emerging Ideas and Understandings; label: Chapter 11
title: The Economics of Information in a Post-Carbon Economy
pagenum: Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski; label: Chapter 12
title: Studying Abundance: Building a New Economics of Scarcity, Sufficiency, and Abundance
pagenum: Roberto Verzola; label: Chapter 13
title: Seeds, Soil, and Good Governance: A Message to Government
pagenum: Doug Bone; label: Chapter 14
title: Open Access to Scholarly Knowledge: The New Commons
pagenum: Heather Morrison