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.
Sobre o autor
Veit Braun is Research Associate in the Institute for Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781529233674 ● Editora Bristol University Press ● Cidade Bristol ● País GB ● Publicado 2024 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 9277214 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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