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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group |
Title: | The Colonial Present IV: Cultural and Material Property | ||||||||||
Description: | This fourth session on the "Colonial Present" will focus on the control and exploitation of cultural and material resources. The first paper will explore indigenous peoples' potential to frustrate the market's appropriation of the genetic commons; and query structural change to intellectual property law as an instance of the expansion of citizenship to indigenous people on their own terms. The second paper will examine cacao production in Panama, and how, despite comprehensive frameworks for protection of indigenous knowledge, genetics, and image, corporate pillaging of Kuna communities continues with impunity. The third paper undertakes a comparative study between Australia and New Zealand, to investigate the continuing impact of colonisation on Indigenous management of coastal environments. Understanding how colonialism has impacted on Aboriginal and Maori environmental relationships in the past and continues to influence their ability to participate in coastal management today is an important part of redress. The fourth paper examines how factors such as market pricing, the Kyoto Protocol, cultural values, and economic development are navigated and play into Maori perspectives with regard to industrial agroforestry. The final paper considers the indigenous people of Orchid Island, Taiwan and their efforts to stave off linguistic and cultural extinction through cultural and educational exchange with the Ivatan peoples on three islands at the north end of the Philippine archipelago. But diplomatic relations between the governments of Taiwan and the Philippines impede travel between these two island areas. |
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Anticipated Attendance: | 100 | ||||||||||
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Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group |