Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples
Subtitle: the cultural politics of law and knowledge
By: Laurelyn Whitt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780521119535
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc; Intellectual property; Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation; Sociological jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imperialism then & now; title: Indigenous knowledge, power and responsibilities; title: Value-neutrality and value-bifurcation : the cultural politics of science; title: The rhetoric of research justification; title: Indigenist critiques of biocolonialism; title: The commodification of knowledge; title: Intellectual property rights as means and mechanism of imperialism; title: Transforming sovereignties; title: The politics of knowledge : resistance and recovery.