Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of
royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a
way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and
indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich
biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance
conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay
and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological
study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of
bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where
Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for
medicinal plants and local knowledge.
Cori Hayden tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise--and
the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a
contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden
examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors,
rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put
prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific
research, she provides a key to understanding which people and
plants are included in the promise of "selling biodiversity to save
it"--and which are not. And she considers the consequences of
linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the
logics of intellectual property.
Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories,
Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and
North-South relations, "When Nature Goes Public" charts the myriad,
emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in
biodiversity and its futures.
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