Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Confronting Modern Norms to Promote Sustainability

Autor/inn/en	Godbole-Chaudhuri, Pragati; Srikantaiah, Deepa; van Fleet, Justin
Titel	Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Confronting Modern Norms to Promote Sustainability
Quelle	In: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2 (2008) 4, S.276-294 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-5692
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Indigenous Knowledge; Ecology; Foreign Countries; Corporations; Sustainable Development; Poverty; Intellectual Property; International Organizations; International Trade + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ökologie; Ausland; Unternehmen; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Armut; Geistiges Eigentum; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen
Abstract	The global proliferation of intellectual property rights (IPRs), most recently through the World Trade Organization's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, poses a grave threat for Indigenous knowledge systems. There is an increasing amount of "piracy" of Indigenous knowledge, whereby corporations and scientists from rich countries are claiming proprietary rights over knowledge that has belonged to cultures and people for hundreds of years. From the hoodia cactus and the Mexican yellow bean, to the use of neem and turmeric in India, IPRs have been inappropriately utilized to promote growth for the rich while hindering development and perpetuating poverty within many Indigenous knowledge-holding communities. The separation of humans from culture, culture from ecology, and ecology from economics has caused severe ecological exploitation and subsequent degradation. This article frames the current debate at the intersection of IPRs and Indigenous knowledge, proposing several alternatives that embrace the purposes of modernity's use of knowledge ownership mechanisms while promoting ecological sustainability through the protection and valorization of Indigenous knowledge. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10