Contested Properties : : Peoples, Plants and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa / / Britta Rutert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Rutert, Britta,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acronyms and Abbreviations --; Chapter I. Opening Pandora’s Box: Bioprospecting in South Africa --; Chapter II. Methodological, Theoretical and Spatial Reflections on Bioprospecting as a Field in Translation --; Chapter III. Ambiguous Contact Zones: Politics, Economy and the Ethnographer --; Chapter IV. “Our Knowledge Belongs to Our Ancestors”: Topographies of Knowledge and the Question of Property --; Chapter V. Transformative Science: From Muthi to Chemical Compound --; Chapter VI. ABS – A Stony Path Towards Sharing: The Chances and Challenges of Access and Benefit Sharing --; Chapter VII. Partial Solution: The Biocultural Community Protocol --; Chapter VIII. Closing Pandora’s Box: Conclusion --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839447949; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110696301; 9783111025124; 9783110689617
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839447949?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Britta Rutert.

This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Bioprospecting, the use of genetic or biological resources for commercial purposes, is a profit-oriented enterprise facing new challenges with the rise of human rights and biodiversity politics. This new situation has led to claims for political leverage made by indigenous communities, as well as to claims for national and local cultural identity and heritage. The picture presented here contributes to the widely discussed yet so far unresolved question of how to appropriately share benefits, and how to protect indigenous knowledge in this field.