scholarly journals Intellectual Property and Openness: A Research Perspective and Agenda

2021 ◽  
pp. 700-713
Author(s):  
Caroline B Ncube
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter considers the various methodologies used and arguments advanced by scholarship which employs an openness paradigm to examine intellectual property (IP), specifically in copyright and patent law. It presents the key attributes of openness, as developed in scholarly literature and research practices. It highlights the underpinning justifications for openness which include social justice imperatives, sustainable development, human development, and human rights, with emphasis on the development of human rights framing. It reprises topical aspects that remain on the normative agenda to inform ongoing and future scholarship founded on international and national perspectives or developmental agendas. Drawing from examples of recent research, it explores how research questions related to copyright and patents have been cast from the standpoint of openness and closes by envisaging some ways in which such scholarship may be advanced methodologically and substantively.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aksel Ersoy
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Oriented Research

This introductory chapter studies the possibilities and tensions for co-produced research practices that emerge from the collision of long-established, community-oriented research practices, an increased institutional emphasis on community co-production in academia, and the ongoing critique of the key terms of these practices. Among long-established approaches to community-oriented research scholarship, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is squarely oriented to a particular vision of social justice and community defined methods and research questions. The chapter cites various case studies about what co-production looks like and some of the challenges that arise. It opens up the field and begins to illustrate in practice what the tensions and challenges of co-production are.

scholarly journals Social Justice, Food Loss, and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Era of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Fleetwood
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rest on a set of broadly accepted values within a human rights framework. The SDGs seek to improve human lives, improve the planet, and foster prosperity. This paper examines the human rights framework and the principles of social justice and shows that, while the SDGs do not specifically state that there is human right to food, the SDGs do envision a better, more just, world which rests upon the sufficiency of the global food supply, on environmental sustainability, and on food security for all. Then the paper examines the interrelationships between the SDGs, food access and waste, and human rights within a framework of social justice. Finally, it looks at the potential pandemic of hunger wrought by COVID-19, showing that COVID-19 serves as an example of a crisis that has raised unprecedented challenges to food loss and waste in the global food supply system and tests our commitment to the principles espoused by the SDGs.

scholarly journals ‘To Hell with Bishops’: Rethinking the Nexus of State, Law and Religion in Times of Crisis in Zimbabwe

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Bekithemba Dube
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
State Law ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
State Responses

The article addresses the responses of the government of Zimbabwe and its proxies to a letter issued by Catholic bishops on 14 August 2020, entitled ‘The march is not ended’. The response to the letter presents an ambivalent view of the nexus of the state, law and religion in Zimbabwe, which needs to be teased out and challenged in order to reinvent a democratic nation. This theoretical article taps into decoloniality theory to problematise state responses to the letter. The articles discuss responses by government actors, such as Monica Mutswanga and Nick Magwana, and regime enablers, such as Mutendi and Wutawunashe. The responses indicate the weaponization of religion and law to silence dissenting voices, and to enact a skewed nationalism. The article argues that, in the context of crisis, authoritarianism, and abuse of human rights, politicians and religious leaders should position their narratives to enact social justice, ontological density, peace and accountability, as a healing process to usher in sustainable development.

scholarly journals Intellectual Property and Innovation Process under Goal 17 of Sustainable Development

Civilizar ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Gabriela Antosova ◽  
Jorge Hernán Cifuentes-Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Application Process ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Technological Transfer ◽  
International Patent ◽  
Development Goals

This paper presents a conceptual discussion focused on the basic vision of science and technology, which is the primary purpose and reference framework of the produced United Nations’ documents and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. The most important intention and the objective of these documents is the technology transfer, which carries a risk of not recognizing other technological options—such as eco-technology—and the limited role representing science and innovation in the achievement of these Sustainable Development Goals. We focused on the broader aspects of international patent law approaches that approximate to incentives of technological transfer and innovation process. This article contributes to the theoretical overview of patent law in the application process of intellectual property use in the international context. In conclusion, we discussed, according to the literature review, the possibility of maintaining the environment by considering technological transfer and innovation process as solutions for world disasters. Sustainable development goals are proposed for the same prevention, which should be clear for every country in the world.

scholarly journals A decade of implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Ethnologies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Duvelle
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Evaluation Report ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Points Of View

In this article, Cécile Duvelle presents the main points of the evaluation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage undertaken by UNESCO a decade after its adoption in 2003. She discusses the achievements as well as the pitfalls of the Convention. Drawing on a survey involving State Parties as well as many non-state stakeholders including NGOs, representatives of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) bearer organizations, and academics, the authors of the evaluation report consider the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to be a highly relevant international legal instrument, both in terms of its consistency with national and local priorities and with the needs of the concerned communities, groups and individuals. The Convention has broadened the more traditional view of heritage to include anthropological and sociological points of view. It also introduced a number of important concepts related to ICH, such as the understanding that the community is the real bearer of ICH and that this heritage is defined in terms of the community; the notion that culture is living and evolving as it is transmitted from one generation to another; and the concept of safeguarding as a measure aimed at ensuring the viability of ICH. The Convention introduced new terminology and definitions that have since gained global prominence, supplanting older concepts. The article provides an in-depth discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the practice of listing ICH elements, of the promises and shortcomings of community participation, of the challenges of intellectual property and cultural diversity to ICH, of the necessary collaboration in the administration of the different UNESCO heritage conventions, and of the ways intangible cultural heritage can contribute to sustainable development, to conflict resolution and to human rights. The author concludes by commenting the recommendations of the evaluation report.

The Spice Route between Africa and India

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Dinesh Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The West ◽  
Education And Technology

As an introduction to the special issue, this essay covers a range of topics – from Mazrui’s historic essay on Gandhi and Nehru to Rumi and Wordsworth’s universal optimism and the role of education and technology in globalization. The historic and cultural relationship between Africa and India is examined, where several important themes are discussed: 1) the emphasis on human rights and social justice; 2) building sustainable development through literacy, education, tech-transfer, and cultural exchange; 3) journeys of loss and redemption between Africa, India and the West; and 4) the historic India-Africa summits.

Community: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy N. Gamble ◽  
Marie Weil
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Leadership For Social Justice ◽  
Women And Girls

Major social changes resulting from globalization, the increase in multicultural societies, and growing concerns for human rights, especially for women and girls, will affect all community practice in this century. Community-practice processes—organizing, planning, sustainable development, and progressive social change—are challenged by these trends and the ethical dilemmas they pose. Eight distinct models of community-practice intervention are described with examples from around the globe. The values and ethics that ground community-practice interventions are drawn from international and national literature. Model applications are identified for work with groups, urban and rural communities, organizations and coalitions, and in advocacy and leadership for social justice and human rights.

Health and Human Rights through Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-350
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Marks ◽  
Alice Han
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

This chapter examines the evolution of sustainable human development as central to health governance, drawing on international human rights norms and standards to establish a human rights-based approach to development. The progression of economic development theories and the international development agenda has led to a discernible paradigm shift in considering development to be a human right. This right to development holds promise in contributing to global health and influencing the Sustainable Development Agenda—positing a rights-based approach to international development cooperation. Bilateral and multilateral development policies and practices have begun to make some progress in implementing a human rights-based approach to development, but the mutually reinforcing goals of health, human rights, and development must be integrated in governance. Global health governance stands to benefit from applying a human rights framework for sustainable human development, yet obstacles remain in realizing the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and advancing the right to development.

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