Associate Professor Fabio Parasecoli Leads Skills Lab: How Ecological Imperialism Originated Indigenous Knowledge Exploitation and Biopiracy
Fabio Parasecoli, Associate Professor and Director of Food Studies Initiatives, led a TEDC Skills Lab with a fascinating lecture about how ecological imperialism originated indigenous knowledge exploitation and biopiracy.The Skills Lab looked at five centuries of colonial and neocolonial enterprises have constantly looked at genetic wealth and agrobiodiversity of the Global South as opportunities to impose specific scientific approaches and delegitimize local epistemologies, while both exploiting and discounting the cultural and technical achievements of whole populations.Professor Parasecoli's workshop focused on how contemporary debates about intellectual property and indigenous knowledge still deal with this negative legacy.