Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes and North-South relations, "When Nature Goes Public" charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures.
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…
Bioprospecting - the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance - has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But ca…