1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449900503321

Titolo

Claiming space [[electronic resource] ] : racialization in Canadian cities / / Cheryl Teelucksingh, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-280-46570-0

9786610465705

1-55458-137-0

1-4237-8560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TeelucksinghCheryl <1965->

Disciplina

305.8/00971

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. TOWARD CLAIMING SPACE:Theorizing racialized spaces in Canadian cities; 2. THE NEW YELLOW PERIL: The rhetorical construction of Asian Canadian identity and cultural anxiety in Richmond; 3. CARVING OUT A SPACE OF ONE'S OWN: The Sephardic Kehila Centre and the Toronto Jewish community; 4. MAPPING GREEKTOWN: Identity and the making of "place"" in suburban Calgary; 5. THERE IS NO ALIBI FOR BEING (BLACK)? Race, dialogic space, and the politics of trialectic identity; 6. CO-MOTION IN THE DIASPORIC CITY: Transformations in Toronto's public culture

7. BLACK MEN IN FROCKS: Sexing race in a gay ghetto (Toronto)8. "SALT-WATER CITY"": The representation of Vancouver in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Café and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony; 9. GAMBLING ON THE EDGE: The moral geography of a First Nations casino in "Las Vegas North"; 10. LIVING WITH THE TRAUMATIC: Social pathology and the racialization of Canadian spaces; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialized despite



objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ideology of multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadian cities are simultaneously part of, and influenced by, racial domination and racial resistance.     Reflecting on the ways in which race is systematically hidden within the workings of Canadian cities, the book also explores the ways in which racialized people attempt to claim space. These essays

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791121303321

Autore

Mahop Marcelin Tonye

Titolo

Intellectual property, community rights, and human rights : the biological and genetic resources of developing countries / / Marcelin Tonye Mahop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-98045-8

1-136-98046-6

1-282-63963-3

9786612639630

0-203-85298-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research in Intellectual Property ; ; v.v. 3

Disciplina

343/.0786606

Soggetti

Biopiracy

Biotechnology - Law and legislation

Traditional ecological knowledge - Law and legislation - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Setting the scene; 2 Patents, PBRs and community rights in international forums; 3 Brief overview on community rights in selected national regulatory instruments; 4 Selected international and regional human-rights instruments and their provisions on community rights and IPRs; 5 Incursion in the 'bio-piracy'



debate: Modern exploitation of the biodiversity components of developing countries and community rights; 6 Soft and regional undertakings aimed at community rights

7 Broader framework of the suggested regulatory measures8 Applicability of the regulatory measures; 9 Final remarks; Appendix I: CITES permitting approach in brief; Appendix II: Laws, policies, professional and ethical codes and declarations; Appendix III: Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic resources including India, South Africa and Brazil, the book examines the access to PGRs and their utilizations in the contexts of scientific and commercial oriented activities pursued both in the source and user countries. Exploring how community rights are protected in national biodiversity-related regulations and some international legal instrum