When Nature Goes Public The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico / Cori Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Cori, 1970- author.

Series:

In-formation series.

In-formation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant diversity conservation.

Medicinal plants.

Intellectual property.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Germplasm resources conservation.

Ethnoscience.

Botanical drug industry.

Conservation des ressources genetiques--Mexique.

Conservation des ressources genetiques.

Diversite vegetale--Conservation--Mexique.

Diversite vegetale.

Autochtones--Droit--Mexique.

Autochtones.

Propriete intellectuelle--Mexique.

Propriete intellectuelle.

Ethnosciences--Mexique.

Ethnosciences.

Plantes medicinales--Industrie--Mexique.

Plantes medicinales.

Plantes medicinales--Mexique.

Plant extracts--economics.

Plant extracts.

Pharmaceutical Preparations--economics.

Pharmaceutical Preparations.

Ecosystem.

Conservation of natural resources.

Biodiversity.

Plants, Medicinal.

Germplasm resources conservation--Mexico.

Plant diversity conservation--Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of Mexico.

Intellectual property--Mexico.

Ethnoscience--Mexico.

Botanical drug industry--Mexico.

Medicinal plants--Mexico.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for medicinal plants and local knowledge. Cori Hayden tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise - and the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific research, she provides a key to understanding which people and plants are included in the promises of "selling biodiversity to save it"--And which are not. And she considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the logics of intellectual property. Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and North-South relations, When Nature Goes Public charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures. -- from back cover.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Interests and Publics: On (Ethno)science and Its Accountabilities

Ch. 2. Neoliberalism's Nature

Ch. 3. Prospecting in Mexico: Rights, Risk, and Regulation

Ch. 4. Market Research: When Local Knowledge Is Public Knowledge

Ch. 5. By the Side of the Road: The Contours of a Field Site

Ch. 6. The Brine Shrimp Assay: Signs of Life, Sites of Value

Ch. 7. Presumptions of Interest

Ch. 8. Remaking Prospecting's Publics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691216362

0691216363

OCLC:

1159822332