Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The Human Consequences of Piracy in China and Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780367594725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado

Opis

From a global perspective, intellectual property is a powerful discourse that governs the world system by framing the notion of piracy as a criminal activity. But at the national level, how do nation-states resist and/or endorse, interpret, and apply a global perspective? And what effect does that have on how ordinary people organize their lives

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction

Introduction

1. A Global Chain Before TRIPS and BRICS

Part 2: South America

2. Stone Years: Informal and Moral Regimes

3. Cleaning Goods and Selves: Local Belonging, International Displacement and Global Enforcement

4. The Chinese Diaspora on the Brazil-Paraguay Border: A Migratory Process in Transformation

Part 3: China

5. Celebrating the New China: Elites and Their Commodified Guanxi Networks

6. The Human Cost of the China Price

7. The Red Flag™: Intellectual Property, Copies and Enforcement in China

Part 4: Conclusion

8. A Global Chain After TRIPS and BRICS

O autorze

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a social scientist and anthropologist in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, UK, a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy, and a columnist of Brazilian magazine CartaCapital. Previously, she has held visiting positions at Harvard University, USA, and University College London, UK.