Rosemary J. Coombe

York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

York University

Canada Research Chair

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

http://www.yorku.ca/rcoombe/publications.htm

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1.

The Properties of Culture and the Politics of Possessing Identity: Native Claims in the Cultural Appropriation Controversy

6 (2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 249 - 285., Reprinted in Elspeth Cameron ed,. Multiculturalism & Immigration in Canada: An Introductory Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2004) 133-158., Abbreviated version reprinted in Karen Engle and Dan Danielson, eds., After Identity: Essays in Law and Culture (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1995) 251-272., Another abbreviation reprinted in Bruce Ziff, ed., Borrowed Power: Issues of Cultural Appropriation (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997) 75-96., Patty Gerstenblith ed., Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004) 541-545 and in the Second Edition (2008) 596-99.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Property, Colonialism, First Nations, Authorship, Culture

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What is Feminist About Open Access?: A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy

Feminists@law, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jul 2011
Carys J. Craig, Joseph F. Turcotte and Rosemary J. Coombe
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, York University and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Copyright, Open Access, Feminism

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Objects of Property and Subjects of Politics: Intellectual Property Laws and Democratic Dialogue

Texas Law Review 1853-1880, Vol. 69, 1991
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Trademark, Cultural authority, Bakhtin

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The Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Traditional Knowledge in International Law

14 St. Thomas Law Review 275-285, 2001
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Biodiversity, Traditional knowledge, Indigenous peoples, International law

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Geographical Indications: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products

In Matthew David and Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014), pp. 207-223.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Stanford University and York University
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cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, geographical indications

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Cultural, Political, and Social Implications of Intellectual Property Law in an Informational Economy

In UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee, eds., Culture, Civilization, and Human Society: A volume in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, developed under the auspices of UNESCO (Oxford: EOLSS Publishers), 1-33, 2012
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Joseph F. Turcotte
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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Access to knowledge, Biodiversity, Commons, Copyright, Cultural heritage, Development, Fair use, Human rights

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Digital Media and the Informational Politics of Appropriation

In Atopia Projects, eds., Lifting: “Theft” in Art. (Aberdeen, UK: Peacock Visual Arts) 20-27
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
David Meurer and Rosemary J. Coombe
Independent and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural appropriation, Intellectual property, Ownership

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Managing Cultural Heritage as Neoliberal Governmentality

In Regina Bendix, Aditya Eggert, Arnkia Peselmann, Sven Meßling (eds.) Heritage Regimes and the State. Gottingen Studies on Cultural Property, Vol. 6 (Gottingen: Gottingen University Press), 375-389, 2012
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Governmentality, Cultural heritage management, Neoliberalism, Critical cultural heritage

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Protecting Cultural Industries to Promote Cultural Diversity: Dilemmas for International Policy-Making Posed by the Recognition of Traditional Knowledge

K. Maskus and J. Reichman, eds.,International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 559-614, . Reprinted in V. V. Ramani and A. V. Bala Krishana, eds., Cultural Industries: Perspectives and Experiences (Hyderabad: ICfai University Press, 2008) 45-64
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural rights, Cultural industries, Traditional knowledge

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Author/Izing the Celebrity: Publicity Rights, Postmodern Politics, and Unauthorized Genders

Special issue titled "Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship." 10 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 365 - 395., Reprinted in Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi, eds., The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriations in Law and Literature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994) 101 - 131., Reprinted again in Peter Yu, ed., The Marketplace of Ideas: Twenty Years of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal (Amsterdam: Kluwer International, 2002) 236-266., In abbreviated version appeared as "The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity." 14 (3) Discourse: Jnl. for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture 59 - 88., Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., The Contemporary Hollywood Reader Routledge 2009 (453-471).
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Publicity rights, Celebrity persona, Postmodern politics

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Commentary on Michael Brown's 'Can Culture Be Copyrighted?'

39 Current Anthropology 207-209, 1998
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Copyright, Culture, Intellectual property

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Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights

In Lynn Meskell, ed., Global Heritage: A Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), pp. 43-69.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 26 Jan 2016
Rosemary J. Coombe and Lindsay Weiss
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Stanford University
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neoliberalism, heritage, cultural rights, human rights, governmentality

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Protecting Traditional Environmental Knowledge and New Social Movements in the Americas: Intellectual Property, Human Right or Claims to an Alternative Form of Sustainable Development?

Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 17, 115-135, 2005
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Traditional environmental knowledge, Cultural rights, Zapatistas, Sustainable development, Neoliberalism

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Contingent Articulations: A Critical Cultural Studies of Law

A. Sarat and T. Kearns, eds., Law in the Domains of Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) pp. 21-64. 1998
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural studies, Law and culture

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Indigenous Cultural Heritage Rights in International Human Rights Law

(with Mohsen Al Attar Ahmed) In Catherine Bell and Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 311-342
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Mohsen Ahmed, Nicole S. Aylwin and Rosemary J. Coombe
Independent, York University and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural heritage rights, Indigenous rights, International human rights law

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The Limits of Heritage: Corporate Interests and Cultural Rights on Resource Frontiers

A Companion to Heritage Studies, First edition. Edited by William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith, and Ullrich Kockel. Wiley & Sons Publishing, 2016. Pp. 337-354.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Jan 2016
Rosemary J. Coombe and Melissa Baird
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Michigan Technological University
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Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Human Rights, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Neoliberalism, Governmentality

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The Evolution of Cultural Heritage Ethics via Human Rights Norms

In Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger, eds., Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Toronto: University Of Toronto Press, 2014), pp. 201-212.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Rosemary J. Coombe and Nicole S. Aylwin
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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cultural heritage, human rights, intellectual property

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First Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage Concerns: Prospects for Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions in International Law

In Catherine Bell & Robert Patterson, eds., Protection of First Nations’ Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy and Reform (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press) 247-277, 2009
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Traditional knowledge, Culture, Intellectual property, International human rights law, Indigenous rights

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Fear, Hope, and Longing for the Future of Authorship and a Revitalized Public Domain in Global Regimes of Intellectual Property

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 52, 1171-1191, 2003
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Copyright, Authorship, Culture, Public domain

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Culture Wars on the Net: Intellectual Property and Corporate Propriety in Digital Environments

Special issue “Culture and the Law” edited by Gaurav Desai. Reprinted in William T. Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 579-608., 100.4 South Atlantic Quarterly 919-947
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Independent
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Trademark, Technology, Identity, Propriety

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Preserving Cultural Diversity Through the Preservation of Biological Diversity: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Role of Digital Technologies

The Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and Health (National Network on Environments and Women’s Health Working Paper Series, September, 2000) pp. 133-161
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Biodiversity, Cultural preservation, Indigenous rights

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Possessing Culture: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Their Properties

In Mark Busse & Veronica Strang, eds., Ownership and Appropriation (London: Berg Publishers) 105-127, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Community rights, Cultural property, Governmentality, Political economy

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Is There a Cultural Studies of Law?

in Toby Miller, ed., A Companion to Cultural Studies(Cambridge: Basil Blackwell) pp. 36-62
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Law and culture, Legal anthropology, Socio-legal studies

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Introducing Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Digital Culture

In Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler, and Martin Zeilinger, eds., Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Toronto: University Of Toronto Press, 2014), pp. 3-43.
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler and Martin Zeilinger
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English and Independent
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fair dealing, copyright, digital media, Canada

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Commodity Culture, Private Censorship, Branded Environments, and Global Trade Politics: Intellectual Property as a Topic of Law and Society Research

A. Sarat, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society (Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell) pp. 369-391, 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Law and society

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A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights

In James C. Young and Conrad Brunck, eds., Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (London: Blackwell) 179-210. 2009
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Elizabeth Byers Coleman, Rosemary J. Coombe and Fiona MacArailt
Florida Gulf Coast University, York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Independent
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Cultural appropriation, Indigenous rights, Law and art

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The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity: Publicity Rights and the Subaltern Politics of Gender

Coombe, Rosemary J. 1992. “The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity: Publicity Rights and the Subaltern Politics of Gender.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture 14(3): 59-88.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Applied Anthropology, Popular Culture, Persona, Psychology, Cultural Anthropology, Zines, Population Studies, Anthropology, Public Figures, Queer Culture, Arts, Human Populations, Celebrities, Social Psychology, Social Behavior, Political Science, Persons, Presentation of Self, Fan Cultures

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Critical Cultural Legal Studies

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, Vol. 10, pp. 463-486, 1998
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Law and culture, Cultural studies

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Rethinking the Work of Geographical Indications in Asia: Addressing Hidden Geographies of Gendered Labour

In Irene Calboli and Ng-Loy Wee Loon, eds. Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade and Development in Asia, 87-121. Cambridge University Press (2017)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 May 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe and S. Ali Malik
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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Contesting the Self: Negotiating Subjectivities in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Defamation Trials

11 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 3-40 (1991)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Legal discourse, Legal history, Defamation trials

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Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin in Rights-Based Sustainable Development

Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice, Peer Zumbansen and Ruth Buchanan, eds. Oxford: Hart Publishing, (2014), 97-118., University of California, Davis Law Review 47: 75-786.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jul 2014
Nicole S. Aylwin and Rosemary J. Coombe
York University and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Geographical Indication (GI), Marks Indicating Conditions of Origin (MICO), rural development, rights-based development

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Cultural Rights and Intellectual Property Debates

2(12) Human Rights Dialogue: An International Forum for Debating Human Rights 34-36, 2005
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural rights, Public domain, Intellectual property, Indigenous rights

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The Work of Rights in the Space of Neoliberal Governmentality's Limits: A Commentary on Tania Li's 'Governmentality'

Anthropologica 49 (2): 284-289, 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Governmentality, Neoliberalism

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Sports Trademarks and Somatic Politics: Locating the Law in a Critical Cultural Studies

R. Martin & T. Miller, eds., SportCult (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 262-288. , Reprinted in D. Goldberg, M. Musheno and L. Bower, eds., Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) pp. 22-49.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Trademark, Sports mascots

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The Social Imaginary of GIS in Contested Environments: Politicized Heritage and the Racialized Landscapes of South African Rooibos Tea

In Matthew David and Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014), pp. 224-237.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Rosemary J. Coombe, Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Stanford University and York University
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cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, geographical indications, rooibos, South Africa

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Intellectual Property Issues in Heritage Management Part 2: Legal Dimensions, Ethical Considerations, and Collaborative Research Practices

Journal of Heritage Management 3: 117-147, 2010
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Jul 2014
Simon Fraser University (SFU), University of Alberta - Faculty of Law, York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Dalhousie University, New York University (NYU) - Institute for Law and Society, University of Victoria and University of Oklahoma
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Cultural heritage management, Intangible heritage, Intellectual property

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Works in Progress: Indigenous Knowledge, Biological Diversity and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal ERA

in R.W. Perry and B. Maurer, eds., Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law and Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 273-314
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Cultural rights, International law, Convention on Biological Diversity, Neoliberalism

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Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alterity on American Commercial Frontiers

11 (2) Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology 202-224, 1996
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Trademark, Legal history, Postmodern, Postcolonial

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Cultural and Intellectual Property: Occupying the Colonial Imagination

16 (1) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 8 - 16., Reprinted in P. Drahos, ed., Intellectual Property a volume in the International Library of Essays in Legal Thought and Legal Theory series (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1999).
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Culture, Liberalism, Authorship

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Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property

Coombe, Rosemary J., and Chapman, Susannah. “Ethnographic Explorations of Intellectual Property.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press. Article published August 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.115.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Nov 2020
Susannah Chapman and Rosemary J. Coombe
University of Queensland and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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branding, commodification, cultural circulation, intellectual property, moral economy, piracy, subjectivity, territorialization, traditional knowledge, translation

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Your Second Life? Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming

(with Andrew Herman and Lewis Kaye) 20 Cultural Studies 184-210, The New Media and Cybercultures Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2019
Andrew Herman and Rosemary J. Coombe
Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Law and technology, Goodwill as governance

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Beyond Modernity's Meanings: Engaging the Postmodern in Cultural Anthropology

11 Culture: Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society 111- 124 (1991)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Postmodernism, Cultural anthrpology

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Cultural, Political, and Social Implications of Intellectual Property Laws in an Informational Economy

In UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee, eds., Culture, Civilization, and Human Society: A Volume in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, developed under the auspices of UNESCO (Oxford: EOLSS Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-33
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe and Joseph F. Turcotte
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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access to knowledge, biodiversity, commons, copyright, cultural heritage, development, fair use, food security, human rights, informational economy, intellectual property, knowledge economy, medicine, neoliberalism, patents, private rights, public domain, public goods, traditional knowledge

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Bordering Diversity and Desire: Using Intellectual Property to Mark Place-Based Products

Special Issue of Environment and Planning A: Society and Space New Borders of Consumption 43(9): 2027-2042 (2011)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Nicole S. Aylwin
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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Intellectual property, Marks indicating conditions of origin (MICOs)

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The Cultural Life of Things: Anthropological Approaches to Law and Society in Conditions of Globalization

10 (2) American University Journal of International Law and Policy 791 - 836, Reprinted in Alexandra George, ed., Globalisation and Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays on Globalization and Law Series. Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006), Abbreviated version reprinted in Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford, eds, The Legal Geographies Reader (Oxford and Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001) 298-318.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Informal economy, Legal anthropology, Globalization

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'The Most Disgusting, Disgraceful and Inequitous Proceeding in Our Law': The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage in Nineteenth Century Ontario

38 University of Toronto Law Journal 64-108 (1988)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Women's legal history, Marriage law, Cultural ideology

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The Human Genome Diversity Project: The Politics of Patents at the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Research Ethics

27 Law & Policy 152-188 (Special issue on Law, Technology and Development), 2005, Reprinted in William Gallagher, ed., Intellectual Property (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Bita Amani and Rosemary J. Coombe
Queen's University - Faculty of Law and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Human genome project, Patents, Biomedical research

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Posthuman Rights Struggles and Environmentalisms from Below in the Political Ontologies of Ecuador and Colombia

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 12 (2): 177-204.1 (2021)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Rosemary J. Coombe and David Jefferson
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and University of Canterbury
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political ontology, posthuman legalities, territorialization, rights of nature, biocultural rights, collective rights, Indigenous life projects, multispecies ethnography

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Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web

7.3 Anthropological Quarterly 559-574, 2004
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts
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Public domain, Cultural property

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Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global South

“Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global South.” In Haidy Geismar and Jane Anderson, eds. Routledge Companion to Cultural Property (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 373-400.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Transforming the Work of Geographical Indications to Decolonize Racialized Labor and Support Agroecology

Coombe, Rosemary, & S. Ali Malik. 2018. “Transforming the Work of Geographical Indications to Decolonize Racialized Labor and Support Agroecology.” UC Irvine Law Review 8(3): 363-412.
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe and S. Ali Malik
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere

7 Public Culture: Society for Transnational Studies 249-274 (co-authored with Paul Stoller). , Reprinted in The Public Sphere Collective, eds. The Black Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) 253-278.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Paul Stoller
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Independent
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Informal economy, Culture, Postcolonial

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Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Sovereignty: New Dilemmas in International Law Posed by the Recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 6, pp. 59-115, 1998
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Human rights, Sovereignty, Convention on Biological Diversity, Indigenous knowledge

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Publicity Rights and Political Aspiration: Mass Culture, Gender Identity and Democracy

New England Law Review 26 (4): 1221-1280 (1992)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Law and culture, Gendered identity, Celebrity persona, Consumer culture

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Marking Difference in American Commerce: Trademarks and Alterity at Century's End

10 (2) Canadian Journal of Law & Society 119-128 (1995), Reprinted in 19(1) PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 105-116 (1996).
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Trademark, Mimesis

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The Law and Late Modern Culture: Reflections on between Facts and Norms from the Perspective of Critical Cultural Legal Studies

Symposium Issue on Jurgen Habermas., Denver University Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1029, 1999
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Jonathan Cohen
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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Habermas, Public sphere, Communication

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Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Development and Trade: Perspectives from the Dynamics of Intangible Cultural Heritage Law and Policy

In Christoph Graber, Karolina Kuprecht, and Jessica Lai, eds., International Trade in Indigenous Cultural Heritage (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 211-236, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
Rosemary J. Coombe and Joseph F. Turcotte
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and York University
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Cultural heritiage, Intangible cultural heritage, International law

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The Demonic Place of the 'Not There': Trademark Rumors In the Postindustrial Imaginary

in James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, eds., Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, 249-274. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Bearing Cultural Distinction: Informational Capitalism and New Expectations for Intellectual Property

in F. Willem Grosheide and Jan J. Brinkhof, eds., Intellectual Property Law: Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual (Antwerpen - Oxford: Molengrafica/Intersentia) pp. 193-213, Reprinted in "Intellectual Property and Social Justice" Symposium Issue. University of California-Davis Law Review 40(3): 891-917 (2007)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe, Steven Schnoor and Mohsen Ahmed
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Independent and Independent
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Cultural diversity, Cultural goods, Informational capitalism, Human rights, Intellectual property

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Challenging Paternity: Histories of Copyright

6 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 397-422 (1994)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Copyright, Law and humanities

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'Same as It Ever Was': Rethinking the Politics of Legal Interpretation

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 34, 603-652, 1989.
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Legal hermeneutics, law and interpretation

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Legal Claims to Culture in and Against the Market: Neoliberalism and the Global Proliferation of Meaningful Difference

Law, Culture and the Humanities 32-55, 2005, Reprinted in Eve Darien-Smith, ed., Ethnography and Law (a volume in the International Library of Essays in Law and Society, Aldershott: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) 95-115
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Culture, Neoliberalism, Governmentality

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Trademarks, Property, and Propriety: The Moral Economy of Consumer Politics and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 50, 597 - 632. (coauthored with Andrew Herman). 50th Anniversary Symposium Issue on Civil Litigation and Popular Culture
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Drake University
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Intellectual property, Domain name controversies, Propriety

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Room for Manoeuver: Toward a Theory of Practice in Critical Legal Studies

14 Law & Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation 69-121 (1989)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Critical legal studies, Social theory

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Authorial Cartographies: Mapping Proprietary Borders in a Less-than-Brave New World

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 5, 1357-1366, (1996)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Colonialism, Globalization, Authorship

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Encountering the Postmodern: New Directions in Cultural Anthropology

Symposium issue titled "Cultural Studies in Canada: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives" 28 Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 188-205 (1991)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Postmodernity, Cultural anthropology, Global capitalism

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Identifying and Engendering the Forms of Emergent Civil Societies: New Directions in Political Anthropology

20 PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 1-12, 1997
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Civil society, Political anthropology

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Rethinking Creativity and Value

Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 3 (12): 804, 2008
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Culture, Creativity

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Interview by Lawrence Liang for the Alternative Law Forum

Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore in the Free Media Lounge, p. 148, 2005
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Legal anthropology, Public domain, Traditional environmental knowledge

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Left Out on the Information Highway

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 75, 237-247, 1996
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Technology, Postmodernity

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Cultural Agencies: 'Constructing' Community Subjects and Their Rights

in Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, eds., Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) 79-98, 2011
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Culture, Community rights, Intellectual property, Indigenous rights, Human rights

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Barren Ground: Reconceiving Honour and Shame in the Field of Mediterranean Ethnography

32 Anthropologica 221 - 238 (1990)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Ethnography, Mediterranean societies, Structural functionalism

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Review of Carol Greenhouse (with Roshanak Kheshti), 'Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States'

American Ethnologist 30: 625, 2003
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Political anthropology, Identity

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Tactics of Appropriation and the Politics of Recognition in Late Modern Democracies

21(3) Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy 411-433 (1993)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Social identity, Citizenship, Recognition, Appropriation

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Finding and Losing One's Self in the Topoi: Placing and Displacing the Postmodern Subject in Law

29 (4) Law & Society Review 599-608 (1995)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 13 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Postmodernism, Subjectivity

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The Not-Quite Publics and the Public Domain

The Not Quite Publics and the Public Domain Pane, Proceedings of Contested Commons, Trespassing Publics: A Public Record (Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) 10-16, 2005
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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Intellectual property, Human rights, Cultural rights, Neoliberalism

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Foreword: Diversifying Intellectual Property

Coombe, Rosemary J. 2015. “Foreword: Diversifying Intellectual Property”. In Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests and Intersections, edited by Irene Calboli and Srividhya Ragavan, xvii-xix. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1107065529
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 25 Apr 2019
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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The knowledge economy and its cultures: Neoliberal technologies and Latin American reterritorializations

HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(3):247-275
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Mar 2022
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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biodiversity, cultural property, diversity, heritage, intellectual property, knowledge economy, traditional knowledge, Latin America

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Three Peters and an Obsessions with Pierre in a Piece of Work: Intellectual Property in John Greyson's Un©Ut

In Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie & Thomas Waugh, eds., The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press), 438-449, 2013
Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2019
Martin Zeilinger and Rosemary J. Coombe
Independent and York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

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John Greyson, Intellectual property, Copyright, Authorship

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Honing a Critical Cultural Studies of Human Rights

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 7:3, 230-246, 2010
Posted: 10 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

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Cultural studies, Human rights

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Economic Relationships in Transition

24 (2) PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 107-117, 2001
Posted: 09 Jul 2014
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

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Biodiversity, Genetic resources, Indigenous rights, International law

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The Expanding Purview of Cultural Properties and Their Politics

Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Rosemary J. Coombe
York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

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