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Reinventing Hoodia
- Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Reinventing Hoodia
- Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780295742182
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295742186
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
18 sep 2017
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
18 sep 2017
Forfatter(e):
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