Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples : the cultural politics of law and knowledge /
Laurelyn Whitt.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xviii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-254) and index.
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.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc. Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc. Intellectual property. Traditional ecological knowledge--Law and legislation. Sociological jurisprudence.