ORCID Profile
0000-0003-1196-7551
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University of Sydney
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2005
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-04-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-06-2023
DOI: 10.1177/03063127231177455
Abstract: Increasingly, countries in the Global South—notably South Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia—are introducing material transfer agreements (MTAs) into their domestic laws for the exchange of scientific material. The MTA is a contract securing the legal transfer of tangible research material between organizations such as laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, or universities. Critical commentators argue that these agreements in the Global North have come to fulfill an important role in the expansion of dominant intellectual property regimes. Taking Indonesia as a case, this article examines how MTAs are enacted and implemented differently in the context of research involving the Global South. Against the conventionally understood forms of contract that commodify and commercialize materials and knowledge, the MTA in the South can be understood as a legal technology appropriated to translate a formerly relational economy of the scientific gift to a market system of science. As a way of gaining leverage in the uneven space of the global bioeconomy, the MTA functions as a technology for ‘reverse appropriation’, a reworking of its usage and meaning as a way of countering some of the global power inequalities experienced by Global South countries. The operation of this reverse appropriation, however, is hybrid, and reveals a complex reconfiguration of scientific exchange amidst a growing push for ‘open science’.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-06-2010
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.16997/WPCC.29
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 05-2006
DOI: 10.1515/FS-2006-0110
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-02-2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2009
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-06-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S1744552318000113
Abstract: In the last decade, several states have increasingly tried to ‘un-sign’ to their humanitarian obligations by seeking ways to circumvent European or international law. Through an analysis of a recently passed act in Australia on the management of asylum seekers, this paper examines how the practice of ‘un-signing’ can be seen as a symptomatic instance of reconfiguring asylum in late modernity. We focus on the proliferation of ‘legal pragmatics’ in the management of refugees. By ‘legal pragmatics’, we refer to the processual ways in which the state attempts to hollow out international refugee law and in which courts respond by reinstating it. Normative consequences are the criminalisation and the juridification of refugees. We argue that the proliferation of ‘legal pragmatics’ illuminates not only the ever-expanding reach of neoliberal changes in domestic legislation, but also the limitations of human rights to adequately respond to the neoliberal vicissitudes of humanitarian government.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-09-2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-03-2015
Abstract: For the authors of this introduction, home is not always or only sweet home. For us, it is constructed with contradictions, ruptures and anxieties. Indeed, the world never fails to present us with ‘real’ people with ‘real’ issues of home. After ‘rescuing’ the idea of home from its two assumed arch-enemies ‘mobility’ and ‘urbanization’, we will proceed to formulate our appeal to reconceptualize ‘home’ and explicate why and how to do so. We have cited instances from Hong Kong, Beijing and Asia at large, not only because the empirical core of this special issue is on Asia, but, more fundamentally, also because we want to take issue with the Eurocentric bias in the debates on home hitherto. We conclude by making a modest plea – or more accurately, to configure various trajectories of thinking on ‘home’ into a plea – to bracket home as (making) place, (not) belonging and (flexible) citizenship.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-01-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01622439211069131
Abstract: As genetic knowledge continues to strengthen notions of identity in Euro-American societies and beyond, epigenetic knowledge is intervening in these legitimation frameworks. I explore these interventions in the realm of assisted reproduction—including adoption, donor conception, and gestational surrogacy. The right to identity is protected legally in many states and receives due attention in public and private international law. Originating from the context of adoption, donor-conceived and surrogacy-born persons have recently demanded the same protections and focused on the right to genetic knowledge. This article explores possible implications of epigenetic knowledge on identity. I start by articulating the deep influence of genetics on the notion of identity, and how this unfolds in legal contexts. Next, I examine how epigenetic findings that stress the importance of seeing biological life as situated and embedded in environments can challenge how adoption, donor conception, and gestational surrogacy are experienced and understood. While I argue that epigenetic knowledge can reify identity with the same determinism underpinning genetics, it can also allow for more biosocial understandings of identity that consider history and experience as entangled with biology.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-03-2022
DOI: 10.1177/01622439221088646
Abstract: In this Introduction, we present a collection of articles under the topic “the reproductive bodies of postgenomics.” Through in idual and collective research, the articles explore—sociologically, ethnographically, and philosophically—how bioscience in the postgenomic age is changing our understanding of reproductive bodies, and more broadly, how it is challenging existing ideas of heredity, embodiment, kinship, and identity. Feminist and postcolonial theories of technoscience are at the heart of this collection, and our aim is to further biosocial thinking while being cognizant that practices of postgenomics also continue to reproduce deterministic paradigms. The concepts of “knowledge,” “experience,” and “justice” form the reference points animating our investigations. We bring these concepts into conversation with one another to disentangle how postgenomics operate differently on the reproductive body, namely on the levels of practice, discourse, and norms. This is an important exercise as it will enable social science and humanities scholars to evaluate the political capacities of postgenomics for the future study of reproduction.
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2010
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 12-2021
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-71832021000300003
Abstract: Resumo Este artigo examina como o direito interage com as mudanças biotecnológicas, olhando para a maneira em que, em processos de reprodução assistida, justificativas legais se relacionam com o conhecimento biológico e social que está redefinindo “pai” e “mãe”. Usando o conceito de “biolegalidade”, foco no surgimento de novas formas de parentalidade legal, analisando como a reivindicação por direitos pode ser baseada em verdades tanto genéticas quanto jurídicas. Ao contrário dos entendimentos convencionais em que “a lei se arrasta atrás da tecnologia”, o artigo visa demonstrar como o conhecimento jurídico interage com as tecnologias e as ciências da vida para rearranjar os próprios entendimentos sobre os direitos. A partir das práticas dos tribunais australianos em relação à legalização da paternidade de crianças nascidas de uma gestação por substituição no exterior, analiso argumentos e decisões de casos federais e locais, demonstrando como uma “abordagem de direitos humanos” promovida por juízes que agem no “melhor interesse de a criança” desestabiliza a aplicação de leis australianas locais que proíbem a gestação por substituição comercial.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-06-2019
DOI: 10.1111/LASR.12412
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-12-2015
DOI: 10.1002/9781118663202.WBEREN634
Abstract: The concepts of race, ethnicity, and nationalism have a specific history in the Dutch context. As many scholars argue, the concepts carry significant moral weight and are often avoided or conveniently ignored rather than seriously confronted or examined in the public and political sphere. The reasons for this collective avoidance can be located through the prism of three key terms—Dutch tolerance, Dutch liberalism, and Dutch identity—that correspond with certain historical periods. The golden age projected the idea of tolerance and precipitated with the Enlightenment the foundations of modern Dutch liberalism, which characterized the post‐World War II period until the end of the twentieth century. In post‐9/11 Netherlands, the assassination of Pim Fortuyn and the murder of Theo van Gogh cultivated a collective fear of an Islam that was “culturized,” ethnicized, and racialized and also contributed to reframing Dutch identity in terms of freedom and civilization.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-02-2014
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2013.776046
Abstract: This article focuses on adoption medicine as a subject of scientific knowledge that increasingly defines the parameters of adoptability in the world of international adoption. While this biomedical discourse alludes to the health of adoptee bodies, it also constitutes ethico-moral practices that produce new justificatory regimes of adoption in particular and humanitarianism in general. Drawing on discourse analysis of scientific texts in adoption medicine on the one hand, and interviews and ethnographic data from a Dutch adoption agency on the other, I demonstrate the emergence of a new moral economy facilitating the legitimacy of international adoption. I argue that this moral economy retools the humanitarian justification of international adoption by privileging the politics of "life itself." This paradigmatic shift constructs new categories of adoptee bodies, rearranges orders of worth, and makes visible biopolitical techniques of morality in present-day humanitarian discourse.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2012
Abstract: On the brink of multiculturalism’s demise in Europe, ‘culture’ configures prominently in the immigration politics of Europe and its nation-states. New discourses of integration emphasize dominant values and norms and define civic membership through cultural commitment or loyalty. How is Europe doing integration, and what is integration doing to Europe? Taking its cues from the Dutch Integration Exam, this article analyses how ‘culture’ is paradigmatically disciplined upon new aspiring citizens. It argues that the citizenship test functions as a technique of governmentality that normalizes secular liberalism in its appropriation of the migrant Other. By employing cultural tropes of sexual freedom, gender equality, freedom of speech and in iduality as emblems of Dutchness, integration is identified as the successful adaptation to hegemonic liberal and secular virtues, leaving little room for cultural or religious variations. By reflecting on the popularity of the Dutch model, the article assesses the paradoxes and tensions involved in thinking the citizen-subject within Europe.
Location: United States of America
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