If interested, please submit abstacts to karine peschard
karine.peschard@mail.mcgill.ca by Feb. 18th, 2009.
Expanding Property Rights and Contested Knowledges
The current movement towards expanding forms of property and the
enforcement of property rights has been referred to, alternatively,
as accumulation by dispossession, the second enclosure, or the global
politics of dispossession (Harvey 2003; Boyle 2003; Andreasson 2006).
These forces reveal the intimate link between scientific knowledge,
capital flows and new, global forms of governmentality (Nguyen 2005;
Sunder Rajan 2006). This panel explores how such developments are
affecting the production and circulation of knowledges ? medical and
agricultural, scientific and folk ? based on case-studies (so far) of
the global south. Two of the case-studies examine the production of
knowledge in laboratory settings ? a public crop biotechnology research
lab in Colombia, and a locally-run HIV lab in Senegal. The third
case-study discusses how farmers? knowledge is increasingly being
marginalized by the growing commodification of seeds. We are
particularly interested in the ways in which dominant knowledges are
negotiated, appropriated and contested.
The conference will be held May 13-16,
http://www.anth.ubc.ca/CASCA_AES_2009.11928.0.html
