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OverviewNative to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming diet industry. In Reinventing Hoodia, Laura Foster explores how the plant was reinvented through patent ownership, pharmaceutical research, the self-determination efforts of Indigenous San peoples, contractual benefit sharing, commercial development as an herbal supplement, and bioprospecting legislation. Using a feminist decolonial technoscience approach, Foster argues that although patent law is inherently racialized, gendered, and Western, it offered opportunities for Indigenous San peoples, South African scientists, and Hoodia growers to make unequal claims for belonging within the shifting politics of South Africa. This radical interdisciplinary and intersectional account of the multiple materialities of Hoodia illuminates the co-constituted connections between law, science, and the marketplace, while demonstrating how these domains value certain forms of knowledge and matter differently. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura A. FosterPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780295742182ISBN 10: 0295742186 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 18 September 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chronology Introduction | Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa 1. Colonial Science and Hoodia as a Scientific Object 2. San Demands for Benefits by Knowing !Khoba as a Plant from Nature 3. South African Scientists and the Patenting of Hoodia as a Molecule 4. Botanical Drug Discovery of Hoodia, from Solid Drug to Liquid Food 5. Hoodia Growers and the Making of Hoodia as a Cultivated Plant Epilogue | Implications of a Feminist Decolonial Technoscience Appendix 1: Community Protocols and Research Guidelines for Working with Indigenous Peoples Appendix 2: Strategies for Patent Litigation Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationLaura A. Foster is an assistant professor of gender studies at Indiana University–Bloomington with affiliations in African studies and the Maurer School of Law. She is also a senior researcher with the Intellectual Property Unit at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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