Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples : the cultural politics of law and knowledge / Laurelyn Whitt.

By: Whitt, Laurelyn.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 265 p. 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521119535 (hbk.); 0521119537 (hbk.).Subject(s): Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc | Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc | Intellectual property | Traditional ecological knowledge -- Law and legislation | Sociological jurisprudenceDDC classification: 346.048

Contents:

Imperialism then and now -- Indigenous knowledge, power, and responsibility -- Value-neutrality and value-bifurcation : the cultural politics of science -- The rhetoric of research justification -- Indigenist critiques of biocolonialism -- The commodification of knowledge -- Intellectual property rights as means and mechanism of imperialism -- Transforming sovereignties.

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