Recent decades have witnessed the creation of new types of property systems, ranging from data ownership to national control over genetic resources. This trend has significant implications for wealth distribution and our understanding of who can own what.
This book explores the idea of ownership in the realm of plant breeding, revealing how plants have been legally and materially transformed into property. It highlights the controversial aspects of turning seeds, plants and genes into property and how this endangers the viability of the seed industry.
Examining ownership not simply as a legal concept, but as a bundle of laws, practices and technologies, this is a valuable contribution that will interest scholars of intellectual property studies, the anthropology of markets, science and technology studies and related fields.
By:
Veit Braun (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) Imprint: Bristol University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Abridged edition Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN:9781529233667 ISBN 10: 1529233666 Pages: 214 Publication Date:25 June 2024 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: From rights to scripts: Articulating property Chapter 3: Property and the market Chapter 4: Re-inventing plants Chapter 5: The values of Patents Chapter 6: Too much property Chapter 7: At the end of property
Veit Braun is Research Associate in the Institute for Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
