Free Knowledge Confronting The Commodification Of Human Discovery 1st Edition by Patricia W Elliott ISBN 0889773653 978-0889773653
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ISBN 10: 0889773653
ISBN 13: 978-0889773653
Author: Patricia W Elliott
Alarms are being sounded around the globe over the increasing commercialization of public knowledge for private profit. Whether you are a farmer, a university student, a medical patient, or a library user, these developments impact your daily life. Knowledge privatization holds growing sway over the choice of the foods you eat, the medicine you take, the software you use, the music you hear, and even the flowers you plant in your own backyard. This is the result of a world where plant seeds have become subject to patents, medical research is overseen by pharmaceutical giants, universities are beholden to corporate funders, and Indigenous knowledge is expropriated. The good news is that people are fighting back, working to create spaces where humanity’s knowledge can be reclaimed and shared for the public good. Composed of fifteen essays from seventeen writers, ranging from academics to farmers to Indigenous knowledge keepers, Free Knowledge is a book on the front lines in the shared project of creating and protecting our Knowledge Commons.
Table of contents:
Prologue: Free Knowledge, Seeds, and Other Beings Brewster Kneen ix
Introduction Patricia W. Elliott Daryl H. Hepting 1
Part 1 Knowledge for Profit: The Commodification of Education and Research
Chapter 1 Higher Education or Education for Hire? Corporatization and the Threat to Democratic Thinking Joel Westheimer 17
Chapter 2 Privatized Knowledge and the Pharmaceutical Industry Sally Mahood 26
Chapter 3 Pseudo-Evidence-Based Medicine; When Biomedical Research Becomes an Adjunct of Pharmaceutical Marketing Arthur Schafer 39
Chapter 4 The Privatization of Knowledge in Canada’s Universities and What We Should Do About It Claire Polster 56
Part 2 Knowledge for People: Examples of Alternative Praxis
Chapter 5 The Canadian Co-operative Movement and the Promise of Knowledge Democracy Mitch Diamantopoulos 69
Chapter 6 Liberating Our Public Airwaves: Sounding Off! Marian van der Zon 101
Chapter 7 Action Research as Academic Reform: The Challenges and Opportunities of Shared Knowledge Patricia W. Elliott 115
Part 3 Knowledge Sovereignty: Indigenous Resistances and Resiliencies
Chapter 8 Indigenous Knowledge: A K’iche-Mayan Perspective Leonzo Barreno 137
Chapter 9 Gnaritas Nullius (No One’s Knowledge): The Essence of Traditional Knowledge and Its Colonization through Western Legal Regimes Gregory Younging 149
Chapter 10 Renegotiated Relationships and New Understandings: Indigenous Protocols Jane Anderson Gregory Younging 180
Part 4 Refraining the Future: Emerging Ideas and Understandings
Chapter 11 The Economics of Information in a Post-Carbon Economy Joshua Farley Ida Kubiszewski 199
Chapter 12 Studying Abundance: Building a New Economics of Scarcity, Sufficiency, and Abundance Roberto Verzola 223
Chapter 13 Seeds, Soil, and Good Governance: A Message to Government Doug Bone 249
Chapter 14 Open Access to Scholarly Knowledge: The New Commons Heather Morrison 256
Acknowledgements 267
Contributors 269
Index 275
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