Research Catalog

Title

Free knowledge : confronting the commodification of human discovery / edited by Patricia W. Elliott & Daryl H. Hepting.

Publication

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elliott, Patricia, 1960-
• Hepting, Daryl H., 1965-

Description

xviii, 293 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Alarms are sounding everywhere over the commercialization of public knowledge for private profit. We not live in a world where plant seeds are covered by patents, medical research has been taken over by pharmaceutical giants, universities are beholden to corporate funders, and Indigenous knowledge is expropriated and exploited to make money. 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. These essays-- from farmers, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and academics-- are on the front lines of the global project to create and defend our Knowledge Commons." --

Subject

• Research > Economic aspects > Canada
• Science > Economic aspects > Canada
• Commodification > Canada
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects > Canada
• Privatization in education > Canada
• Knowledge, Sociology of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: Free knowledge, seeds, and other beings / Brewster Kneen -- Introduction / Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl H. Hepting -- Higher education or education for hire? Corporatization and the threat to democratic thinking / Joel Westheimer -- Privatized knowledge and the pharmaceutical industry / Sally Mahood -- Pseudo-evidence-based medicine: When biomedical research becomes an adjunct of pharmaceutical marketing / Arthur Schafer -- The privatization of knowledge in Canada's universities and what we should do about it / Claire Polster -- The Canadian co-operative movement and the promise of knowledge democracy / Mitch Diamantopoulos -- Liberating our public airwaves: sounding off! / Marian van der Zon -- Action research as academic reform: The challenges and opportunities of shared knowledge / Patricia W. Elliott -- Indigenous knowledge: A K'iche-Mayan perspective / Leonzo Barreno -- Gnaritas Nullius (No One's Knowledge): The essence of traditional knowledge and its colonization through Western legal regimes / Gregory Younging -- Renegotiated relationships and new understandings: Indigenous protocols / Jane Anderson and Gregory Younging -- The economics of information in a post-carbon economy / Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski -- Studying abundance: Building a new economics of scarcity, sufficiency, and abundance / Roberto Verzola -- Seeds, soils, and good governance: a message to government / Doug Bone -- Open access to scholarly knowledge: The new commons / Heather Morrison.

ISBN

• 9780889773653 (paperback)
• 0889773653 (paperback)

OCLC

• 904866839
• SCSB-10983328

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library