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Towards an ecological intellectual property : reconfiguring relationships between people and plants in Ecuador

Title
Towards an ecological intellectual property : reconfiguring relationships between people and plants in Ecuador / David J Jefferson.
ISBN
9780367429799
0367429799
9781003046240
9781000089622
9781000089288
9781000089431
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
x, 228 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Notes
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - TC Beirne School of Law (University of Queensland), 2019) issued under title: Experimenting with the governance of plants as intellectual property : limitations, possibilities, and the Ecuadorian experience.
Summary
"This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an "eco-centric" approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain "logics" that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an "ecological turn" in laws that govern vegetal life. The analysis is based on a close examination of the experiences that lawmakers in Ecuador have had when experimenting with innovative approaches to re-form relationships between human and non-human beings. Concretely, these experiments have yielded constitutional, legislative, and regulatory changes that inform the inquiry of how intellectual property and plant genetic resources laws - both in Ecuador and worldwide - could become more "ecological" in nature. The argument that the book develops is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and empirical research in Ecuador, complemented by archival and doctrinal legal analysis. The contents of the book will be of interest to an academic audience of legal scholars and postgraduate students in law, in addition to scholars and students in the fields of anthropology, sociology, socio-legal studies, and science and technology studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Jefferson, David J. Towards an ecological intellectual property. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 12, 2021
Series
Routledge research in intellectual property.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Taking Plants Seriously in Law
Turning Plants into Intellectual Property
Universalising an Instrumental Approach to Plants in Law
The Logic of Plant Genetic Resources
Reconfiguring Intellectual Property in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian Approach to Intellectual Property for Plants
Alternatives to Conventional Legal Imaginaries for Human-Plant Interactions Lessons from the Ecuadorian Experiment with an Ecological Turn in Lawmaking.
Genre/Form
Patents.
Citation

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