From Market to Market: Bioprospecting’s Idioms of Inclusion
Author(s)
Hayden, Cori
Abstract
In this article I explore how “community” and its foil, the (urban) market, provide competing models for the market-mediated modes of inclusion and exclusion on offer through bioprospecting agreements. Focusing on the collecting strategies of Mexican scientists implementing one such agreement, I show how community and market inform prospecting participants’ ideas not just about (re)distributing benefits but also about managing the political liabilities now haunting corporate resource extraction in the South
