Reinventing Colonialism: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Rights and the New Economics of Sustainable Development

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dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Subhabrata Bobbyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T14:39:48Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T14:39:48Z
dc.date.issued2002en_US
dc.date.submitted2002-11-05en_US
dc.date.submitted2002-11-05en_US
dc.description.abstract"This paper explores the contradictions inherent in one of the more popular buzzwords of today: sustainable development. I argue that despite claims of a paradigm shift, the sustainable development paradigm is based on an economistic, not ecological rationality. Discourses of sustainable development embody a view of nature specified by modern economic thought. One consequence of this discourse involves the transformation of 'nature' into 'environment', a transformation that has important implications on notions of how development should proceed. The 'rational' management of resources is integral to the Western economy and its imposition on developing countries is problematic and I discuss the implications of this 'regime of truth' for the Third World with particular reference to biotechnology, biodiversity and intellectual property rights. I argue that these aspects of sustainable development threaten to colonize spaces and sites in the Third World, spaces that now need to be made 'efficient' because of the capitalization of nature."en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdatesJune 17-21, 2002en_US
dc.identifier.citationconferenceThe Commons in an Age of Globalisation, the Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Propertyen_US
dc.identifier.citationconflocVictoria Falls, Zimbabween_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/1813
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectIASCen_US
dc.subjectcommon pool resources--developing countriesen_US
dc.subjectintellectual property rights--developing countriesen_US
dc.subjectsustainabilityen_US
dc.subjecteconomic development--developing countriesen_US
dc.subjectcommodificationen_US
dc.subjectbiodiversity--developing countriesen_US
dc.subjectbiotechnology--developing countriesen_US
dc.subjectcolonizationen_US
dc.subject.sectorGeneral & Multiple Resourcesen_US
dc.subject.sectorInformation & Knowledgeen_US
dc.submitter.emailfwalexan@indiana.eduen_US
dc.titleReinventing Colonialism: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Rights and the New Economics of Sustainable Developmenten_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dc.type.publishedunpublisheden_US

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