JRT 03: Ownership of genetic resources
On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bio-economy
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Background
The Junior Research Team 03 “Ownership of genetic resources: On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bio-economy” is, as a subproject, embedded into the Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 294 “Structural Change of Property”External link funded by the German Research Council (DFG) (Cooperation of the FSU Jena and the Max Weber Kolleg of the University Erfurt).
Project Outline
The research project investigates the attempted imposition of ownership structures on traditional knowledge about genetic resources. It aims to gain insights into the internal dynamics of the objects of ownership, which complicate that propertisation process, and the potential emergence of alternative ownership regimes and alternatives to private property itself in the global bio-economy.
The empirical focus of the study is on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol from its international negotiation forums to the debates on reparation payments between indigenous peoples and companies in Brazil.
Staffs
Principal Investigator: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse
Researcher: Eduardo Relly
Research Assistant: Zelda Wenner
