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Book Review Essay: The Mature Phase: Four Generations of Scholarship on Colonial Mesoamerica and New Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay reviews the following works: Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World. Edited by Mark Christensen and Jonathan Truitt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 276. $55.00 cloth.
Matthew, Laura E.
core   +1 more source

A review of participatory mapping in conservation science and practice

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
There has been a recent increase and diversification in the use of participatory mapping in the field of conservation, however, methodological standards remain both disjointed and confounding. We conducted a comprehensive review of the conservation participatory mapping literature and synthesized geographical, temporal, and topical trends across a ...
Michael B. Kowalski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What, if Any, Are the Ethical Obligations of the U.S. Patent Office? A Closer Look at the Biological Sampling of Indigenous Groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The patenting of biological resources collected from indigenous groups has become a controversial trend. Two U.S. patents in particular, one claiming a cell-line from a 26-year old Guayami woman and one claiming a leukemia virus from a Hagahai man in ...
Whelan, Marina L.
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Whose knowledge, whose cure? traditional medicine and the boundaries of WIPO's 2024 genetic resources treaty

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional medicine—including complementary, integrative, Indigenous, and ancestral practices—remains a vital source of healthcare for billions worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Despite its widespread use and biomedical relevance, traditional medicinal knowledge has long been excluded from dominant intellectual property systems ...
Tolulope Anthony Adekola
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conflictos sociales y políticos y su judicialización en una comunidad andina, norte de Chile (1867-1925)

open access: yesEstudios Atacameños, 2015
El siguiente artículo evidencia los diversos conflictos jurídicos que se produjeron desde fines del siglo XIX al XX, en la comunidad andina de Socoroma.
Carlos Omar Choque Mariño
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