When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico, Cory Hayden (Princeton University Press, 2004)
When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico, Cory Hayden (Princeton University Press, 2004)
“Skillfully negotiating politically charged terrain, When Nature Goes Public challenges romantic views of biodiversity and the associated reification of local communities. In so doing, Cori Hayden illustrates how the science of plant genetic resources and the markets for them emerge as contingent products of specific cultural and political practices. With admirable critical balance, she explores the shifting and unpredictable lines between private rights and public properties in global environmental politics and illustrates the law of unintended consequences at work in neoliberal efforts to value indigenous knowledge.”