In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Collection of Nature and the Nature of Collecting
- Revealing the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting
- Collecting as Simple Acquisition: Decontextualization and Exoticization
- Collection as Concentration and Control
- Collection as Recirculation and Regulation
- New World Collectors
- 3. SPPEDUP: Accdlerating the Social and Spatial Dynamics of Collecting
- Retheorizing Life Forms: Material and Informational?
- The Rise of the Information and Bio-Information Economies
- Emerging Markets: The Regulation of Trade in Bio-Information
- 4. New Collectors, New Collections
- "When the World Was a Kinder and Gentler Place": Early Players and Vacation Pursuits
- "An Historic Revival of Collecting"
- Impetus for the Revival: Technological Change
- The Biodiversity Convention: New Protocols and New Rationales
- Gatt Trips: New Protections, New Incentives
- The Practice and Process of Collecting
- 5. The Fate of the Collectors
- From Reproduction to Replication
- "Build It For Us"
- Combinations and Permutations
- The Diminshing Role in SITU Collecting
- The Advent of Microsourcing
- Re-Mining Ex SITU Collections
- The Emerging Trade in Collected Genetic and Biochemical Materials
- Hire Plants: Renters and Brokers
- Transacting Bio-Information: Licensing and "Pay-Per-View"
- 6. Taming the Slippery Beast: Regulating Trade in Bio-Information
- Compensatory Agreements: The Rise of a Proto-Universal Culture of Regulation?
- Networks, Capillaries, and the Geography of Knowledge Systems
- Compensatory Agreements: Investigating Terms and Conditions
- Infrastructural Support and Technical Training
- Future Benefits: Royalty Payments
- Taming the Slippery Beast
- Regulating the Unlicensed Copying of Bio-Information
- Concentration and Control: Patenting Collected Materials
- The Complexities of "Co-Inventorship"
- 7. Back to the Future
- Appendix: Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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