Ownership of Knowledge

Beyond Intellectual Property
Herausgeber: Schafer, Dagmar

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or science and law, Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning propose technology as a central heuristic for studying the many implications of knowledge ownership. Toward this end, they focus on the notions of knowledge and ownership in courtrooms, workshops, policy, and research practices, while also shedding light on scholarship itself as a powerful tool for making explicit the politics inherent in knowledge practices and social order.   The book presents case studies showing how diverse knowledge economies are created and how inequalities arise from them. Unlike scholars who have fragmented this discourse across the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and history, the editors highlight recent developments in the emerging field of the global history of knowledge—as science, as economy, and as culture. The case studies reveal how notions of knowing and owning emerge because they reciprocally produce and determine each other’s limits and possibilities; that is, how we know inevitably affects how we can own what we know; and how we own always impacts how and what we are able to know. Contributors Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Cynthia Brokaw, Marius Buning, Viren Murthy, Marjolijn Bol, Amy E. Slaton, James Leach, Myles W. Jackson, Lissant Bolton, Vivek S. Oak, Jörn Oeder

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 228mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9780262545594
• ISBN-10: 0262545594
• Artikelnr.: 67713077

Autorenporträt

edited by Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Ownership of Knowledge: Introduction 1
Dagmar Schafer and Annapurna Mamidipudi
1 Excavations of Knowledge Ownership: Theoretical Chapter 15
Annapurna Mamidipudi and Dagmar Schafer
I Mutual Conditioning
2 Intellectual Property with Chinese Characteristics 47
Cynthia Brokaw
3 Teaching Intellectual Property: Constructing the Historical Narrative of
Intellectual Property in University Textbooks 91
Marius Buning
II The Three Practices: Performance, Use, Naming
4 Raga and the Problem of Ownership: Knowledge and Culture in Carnatic
Music 121
Annapurna Mamidipudi and Viren Murthy
5 Imitating Crackles: Material Mimesis in Stones and Textiles 153
Marjolijn Bol
6 Educational Inequities and the Distribution of Technical Knowledge: Three
Instruments 181
Amy E. Slaton
III The Three Domains: Society, Economy, Epistemology
7 An Aesthetic of Knowledge: Relations and the Documentation of Traditional
Knowledge in Papua New Guinea 219
James Leach
8 Names for Work: Crafts, Bureaucracy, and Law in Yuan and Ming China
(Thirteenth-Seventeenth Century) 251
Dagmar Schafer
9 Ownability, Ownership, Knowledge, and Genetic Information in the United
States 293
Myles W. Jackson
IV The Role of Scholarship
10 Objects, Knowledge, and Museums: Reflections on the Endangered Material
Knowledge Programme 319
Lissant Bolton
11 A Reader's Guide to Ownership of Knowledge: Diagrammatic Chapter 343
Vivek S. Oak, Jorn Oeder, and Annapurna Mamidipudi
Contributors 363
Index 367