A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.
Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or science and law, Dagmar Sch fer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning propose technology as a central heuristic for studying the many implications of knowledge ownership. Toward this end, they focus on the notions of knowledge and ownership in courtrooms, workshops, policy, and research practices, while also shedding light on scholarship itself as a powerful tool for making explicit the politics inherent in knowledge practices and social order.
The book presents case studies showing how diverse knowledge economies are created and how inequalities arise from them. Unlike scholars who have fragmented this discourse across the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and history, the editors highlight recent developments in the emerging field of the global history of knowledge-as science, as economy, and as culture. The case studies reveal how notions of knowing and owning emerge because they reciprocally produce and determine each other's limits and possibilities; that is, how we know inevitably affects how we can own what we know; and how we own always impacts how and what we are able to know.
Contributors Dagmar Sch fer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Cynthia Brokaw, Marius Buning, Viren Murthy, Marjolijn Bol, Amy E. Slaton, James Leach, Myles W. Jackson, Lissant Bolton, Vivek S. Oak, J rn Oeder
Edited by:
Dagmar Schafer,
Annapurna Mamidipudi,
Marius Buning
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262545594
ISBN 10: 0262545594
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Ownership of Knowledge: Introduction 1 Dagmar Schafer and Annapurna Mamidipudi 1 Excavations of Knowledge Ownership: Theoretical Chapter 15 Annapurna Mamidipudi and Dagmar Schafer I Mutual Conditioning 2 Intellectual Property with Chinese Characteristics 47 Cynthia Brokaw 3 Teaching Intellectual Property: Constructing the Historical Narrative of Intellectual Property in University Textbooks 91 Marius Buning II The Three Practices: Performance, Use, Naming 4 Raga and the Problem of Ownership: Knowledge and Culture in Carnatic Music 121 Annapurna Mamidipudi and Viren Murthy 5 Imitating Crackles: Material Mimesis in Stones and Textiles 153 Marjolijn Bol 6 Educational Inequities and the Distribution of Technical Knowledge: Three Instruments 181 Amy E. Slaton III The Three Domains: Society, Economy, Epistemology 7 An Aesthetic of Knowledge: Relations and the Documentation of Traditional Knowledge in Papua New Guinea 219 James Leach 8 Names for Work: Crafts, Bureaucracy, and Law in Yuan and Ming China (Thirteenth-Seventeenth Century) 251 Dagmar Schafer 9 Ownability, Ownership, Knowledge, and Genetic Information in the United States 293 Myles W. Jackson IV The Role of Scholarship 10 Objects, Knowledge, and Museums: Reflections on the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme 319 Lissant Bolton 11 A Reader's Guide to Ownership of Knowledge: Diagrammatic Chapter 343 Vivek S. Oak, Jorn Oeder, and Annapurna Mamidipudi Contributors 363 Index 367
Dagmar Sch fer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Annapurna Mamidipudi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Marius Buning is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo.
