2016
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12344
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Royal pharmaceuticals: Bioprospecting, rights, and traditional authority in South Africa

Abstract: A B S T R A C TThe translation of international biogenetic resource rights to a former apartheid homeland is fostering business partnerships between South African traditional leaders and multinational pharmaceutical companies. In the case of one contentious resource, these partnerships are entrenching, and in some instances expanding, apartheid-associated boundaries and configurations of power. The state and corporate task of producing communities amenable to biodiversity commercialization and conservation is … Show more

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“…Issues around biopiracy make this especially relevant. Christopher Morris () examines how the uneven translation of “Access and Benefit Sharing” (ABS) rights in post‐apartheid South Africa demonstrates how ethno‐commodities have served to legitimize particular structures of power and partnerships, namely around chiefs and territoriality. In particular, he uses the case around the burgeoning pharmaceutical sourced as Pelargonium in a village in the Ciskei called the Masakhane.…”
Section: Matters Of Meaning and Ontological Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Issues around biopiracy make this especially relevant. Christopher Morris () examines how the uneven translation of “Access and Benefit Sharing” (ABS) rights in post‐apartheid South Africa demonstrates how ethno‐commodities have served to legitimize particular structures of power and partnerships, namely around chiefs and territoriality. In particular, he uses the case around the burgeoning pharmaceutical sourced as Pelargonium in a village in the Ciskei called the Masakhane.…”
Section: Matters Of Meaning and Ontological Discoursementioning
confidence: 99%