From WIPO to Vale do Ribeira and Back Global (Dis)connections, Indigenous Knowledges and Narratives of Protection

• Auteur principal: Balvedi Pimentel, Gabriela (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Genève Graduate Institute Publications 2021
• Collection: eCahiers de l'Institut
• Sujets: Anthropology; legal cultures; public discourse; culture religion and identity; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); indigenous knowledges; governance
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Vale do Ribeira, the largest reserve of Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil, is home to quilombola and caiçara communities. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Geneva, is responsible for regulating intellectual property rights. What can possibly connect these places? In both, narrativ...