Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Science and Technology Studies Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Library and Information Science (4)
- Law (3)
- Other Political Science (3)
- Political Science (3)
- Sociology (3)
-
- Theory, Knowledge and Science (3)
- Communication (2)
- Communication Technology and New Media (2)
- Critical and Cultural Studies (2)
- Politics and Social Change (2)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (2)
- Science and Technology Policy (2)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Health Law and Policy (1)
- Intellectual Property Law (1)
- Law and Society (1)
- Legislation (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Science and Technology Law (1)
- Torts (1)
- Keyword
-
- Agricultural Biotechnology (3)
- Canada (2)
- Environmental Studies (2)
- Marx (2)
- Marxist Theory (2)
-
- Primitive accumulation (2)
- Science, Technology, and Society (2)
- Academia (1)
- Access to Information (1)
- Access to information (1)
- Adventitious presence (1)
- Agricultural biotechnology (1)
- Autonomous Marxism (1)
- Bayer CropScience (1)
- Biotechnology (1)
- Commons (1)
- FOI (1)
- Fair Information Practices (1)
- Genetic contamination (1)
- Genetically engineered crops (1)
- Genetically engineered seeds (1)
- Government information (1)
- Higher education (1)
- Information commons (1)
- Informational Privacy (1)
- Informed Consent (1)
- Intellectual Property (1)
- Medical Privacy (1)
- Medical Research (1)
- Monsanto (1)
Articles 1 - 5 of 5
Full-Text Articles in Science and Technology Studies
Primitive Accumulation And Enclosure Of The Commons: Genetically Engineered Seeds And Canadian Jurisprudence, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Primitive Accumulation And Enclosure Of The Commons: Genetically Engineered Seeds And Canadian Jurisprudence, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus
This paper juxtaposes the legal decisions made in the case of Percy Schmeiser, who was sued by Monsanto for patent infringement, against the attempt by the Organic Agriculture Protection Fund to obtain class certification in its efforts to sue Monsanto and Bayer for genetic contamination of organic canola. Together these two cases establish an unacceptable incongruity at common law between the rights enjoyed by intellectual property owners and any corresponding duties that might attach to their inventions. I suggest that Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation offers a suitable theoretical register for apprehending contemporary erosions of the commons through the enclosure …
Biowatch South Africa And The Challenges In Enforcing Its Constitutional Right To Access To Information, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Biowatch South Africa And The Challenges In Enforcing Its Constitutional Right To Access To Information, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus
This paper examines the difficulties encountered by Biowatch, a South African civil society environmental organization, in its attempts to obtain access to government information in respect of genetically engineered plants. After establishing the context of South Africa's access to information regime, including a brief discussion of several of its weaknesses, the paper engages in an extended account of the Biowatch case as an exemplar of some of the more pronounced challenges to the effective implementation of the country's access to information legislation. The elaboration of the case is based on interviews conducted with the Director of Biowatch and counsel from …
The Neoliberal University And Agricultural Biotechnology: Reports From The Field, Wilhelm Peekhaus
The Neoliberal University And Agricultural Biotechnology: Reports From The Field, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus
Following in the footsteps of a variety of previous research that elaborates on the current state of affairs in academia, this article sets out the argument that neoliberalism and its corresponding iterations of science and technology and research funding policies in this country have implications for the types of knowledge that can be generated within and communicated without contemporary institutions of higher education. Using agricultural biotechnology as the lens through which to focus analysis, the article outlines a number of empirical examples that illustrate how the free flow of knowledge either critical of or not readily appropriated by capital is …
Primitive Accumulation And Re-Appropriation Of The Information Commons, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Primitive Accumulation And Re-Appropriation Of The Information Commons, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus
This paper suggests that LIS might benefit from critical political economy as a way of theorizing and responding to enclosures of information commons. The autonomist Marxist re-invigoration of ‘primitive accumulation’ offers a register for apprehending contemporary erosions of the commons. Autonomist Marxism also helps conceptualize resistance to enclosures.
Research In The Biotech Age: Can Informational Privacy Compete?, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Research In The Biotech Age: Can Informational Privacy Compete?, Wilhelm Peekhaus
Wilhelm Peekhaus
This paper examines the privacy of personal medical information in the health research context. Arguing that biomedical research in Canada has been caught up in the government’s broader neo-liberal policy agenda that has positioned biotechnology as a strategic driver of economic growth, the author discusses the tension between informational privacy and the need for medical information for research purposes. Consideration is given to the debate about whether privacy for medical information serves or hinders the ‘public good’ in respect of medical research, and to discussions of informed consent as an element of ‘fair information practices’ designed to safeguard the privacy …