Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.

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Fabien Girard is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, and also a former Research Fellow, Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO), UK. He is the co-editor of The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research (2018).

Ingrid Hall is an Associate Professor of anthropology at the University of Montréal, Canada, and an associate member of the Unité mixte de recherché Savoirs, Environnements, Sociétés (UMR SENS), France. She is the co-editor of Savoirs Locaux en Situation (2019).

Christine Frison is an FNRS Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Legal Sciences of the UCLouvain, Belgium. Her latest books are The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research (2018) and Redesigning the Global Seed Commons (2018).

Inhalt

1. Community Protocols and Biocultural Rights: Unravelling the Biocultural Nexus in ABS Part 1. Conceptual Insights: Biocultural Diversity, Biocultural Rights and Space Making 2. A Biocultural Ethics Approach to Biocultural Rights: Exploring Rights, Responsibilities and Relationships through Ethics Initiatives in Canada 3. Sumaq kawsay (Good Living) and Indigenous Potatoes: On the Delicate Exercise of Ontological Diplomacy 4. Unmaking the Nature/Culture Divide: The Ontological Diplomacy of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities at the CBD 5. From Obstruction to Decolonization? Contested Sovereignty, the Seed Treaty, and Biocultural Rights in the U.S./Turtle Island and Beyond 6. The Legal Framework Behind Biocultural Rights: An Analysis of their Pros and Cons for Indigenous Peoples and for Local Communities Part 2. Biocultural Community Protocols, Access and Benefit-Sharing and Beyond 7. Community Protocols as Tools for Collective Action beyond Legal Pluralism the Case of Tracks in the Salt 8. Biocultural Rights and Protocols in the Pacific 9. The Khoikhoi Community's Biocultural Rights Journey with Rooibos 10. Biocultural Community Protocols and Boundary Work in Madagascar: Enrolling Actors in the Messy World(s) of Global Biodiversity Conservation Part 3. Biocultural Jurisprudence, Sovereignty and Legal Subjectivity 11. Biocultural Community Protocols and the Ethic of Stewardship: The Sovereign Stewards of Biodiversity 12. Concluding Thoughts: Biocultural Jurisprudence in Hindsight: Lessons for the Way Forward