ISBN:
9780231509299
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Parry, Bronwyn Trading the genome
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Germplasm resources
;
Germplasm resources
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Bioprospektion
;
Biomaterial
;
Genbibliothek
;
Informationsökonomie
Abstract:
In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Collection of Nature and the Nature of Collecting -- Revealing the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting -- Collecting as Simple Acquisition: Decontextualization and Exoticization -- Collection as Concentration and Control -- Collection as Recirculation and Regulation -- New World Collectors -- 3. SPPEDUP: Accdlerating the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting -- Retheorizing Life Forms: Material and Informational? -- The Rise of the Information and Bio-Information Economies -- Emerging Markets: The Regulation of Trade in Bio-Information -- 4. New Collectors, New Collections -- When the World Was a Kinder and Gentler Place": Early Players and Vacation Pursuits -- An Historic Revival of Collecting" -- Impetus for the Revival: Technological Change -- The Biodiversity Convention: New Protocols and New Rationales -- Gatt Trips: New Protections, New Incentives -- The Practice and Process of Collecting -- 5. The Fate of the Collectors -- From Reproduction to Replication -- Build It For Us" -- Combinations and Permutations -- The Diminshing Role in SITU Collecting -- The Advent of Microsourcing -- Re-Mining Ex SITU Collections -- The Emerging Trade in Collected Genetic and Biochemical Materials -- Hire Plants: Renters and Brokers -- Transacting Bio-Information: Licensing and "Pay-Per-View" -- 6. Taming the Slippery Beast: Regulating Trade in Bio-Information -- Compensatory Agreements: The Rise of a Proto-Universal Culture of Regulation? -- Networks, Capillaries, and the Geography of Knowledge Systems -- Compensatory Agreements: Investigating Terms and Conditions -- Infrastructural Support and Technical Training -- Future Benefits: Royalty Payments -- Taming the Slippery Beast.
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