This article attempts to look at the role of various aspects of the issue - such as the distinction between invention and discovery, the question of patents over genes, and the non-recognition of indigenous knowledge about the use of medicinal plants that has led to pillaging of bio-resources...

This essay is written to address conversations about the best ways to engage in knowledge exchange on important sustainability issues between Indigenous knowledges and fields of climate, environmental and sustainability sciences. In terms of sustainability, a crucial facet of the...

The focus of this chapter is the phenomenon of globalization as a contemporary manifestation of a long historical process of expansionism, in which tensions between the contested mandates of expansion and accumulation has been in constant interplay with the world's indigenous peoples. This...