Free knowledge : confronting the commodification of human discovery
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- ISBN: 9780889773653 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0889773653 (paperback)
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xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Free knowledge, seeds, and other beings / Brewster Kneen -- Introduction / Patricia W. Elliott and Daryl H. Hepting -- Higher education or education for hire? Corporatization and the threat to democratic thinking / Joel Westheimer -- Privatized knowledge and the pharmaceutical industry / Sally Mahood -- Pseudo-evidence-based medicine: When biomedical research becomes an adjunct of pharmaceutical marketing / Arthur Schafer -- The privatization of knowledge in Canada's universities and what we should do about it / Claire Polster -- The Canadian co-operative movement and the promise of knowledge democracy / Mitch Diamantopoulos -- Liberating our public airwaves: sounding off! / Marian van der Zon -- Action research as academic reform: The challenges and opportunities of shared knowledge / Patricia W. Elliott -- Indigenous knowledge: A K'iche-Mayan perspective / Leonzo Barreno -- Gnaritas Nullius (No One's Knowledge): The essence of traditional knowledge and its colonization through Western legal regimes / Gregory Younging -- Renegotiated relationships and new understandings: Indigenous protocols / Jane Anderson and Gregory Younging -- The economics of information in a post-carbon economy / Joshua Farley and Ida Kubiszewski -- Studying abundance: Building a new economics of scarcity, sufficiency, and abundance / Roberto Verzola -- Seeds, soils, and good governance: a message to government / Doug Bone -- Open access to scholarly knowledge: The new commons / Heather Morrison. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | Q 180.55 E25 F74 2015 (Text) | 26040003202435 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |