Imagining a Traditional Knowledge Commons

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"TK [Traditional Knowledge] Commons ultimately seeks to view the knowledge of indigenous and local communities as a total social phenomenon that moves beyond understanding TK as a purely tradable commodity to promoting the cultural and spiritual dimensions of TK that underlie a biocultural way of life....Rather than merely relying on the generations of rights that have already been formulated, ILCs [indigenous and local communities] could actively participate through the TK Commons in the ongoing process of shaping the evolving framework of international human rights. The TK Commons would thus enable ILCs to build on previous generations of rights with new articulations of biocultural rights that recognize the complex, interdependent relationship of ecosystems, human communities and the cohesive flows of knowledge that bind and shape them. It provides the possibility of a participatory system of rights guided and supported as much by appreciation of community bonds and biospiritual virtues as it is by legal mandate and market processes, an expanded community through, which we can all participate and, in Neruda's words, widen “the boundaries of our being” through our experience of “the affection that comes from those whom we do not know.” ..."

Link:

http://www.idlo.int/publications/TraditionalKnowledge.pdf

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Tags:

oa.new oa.south oa.tk oa.commons

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 18:58

Date published:

04/15/2010, 07:48