Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South - Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana
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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 around this system? Interweaving discourse on transnational flow of small capital, petty capitalism, non-hegemonic globalization and globalization from below, the book presents low-income traders not as passive victims of globalization, but as active…mehr

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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 around this system? Interweaving discourse on transnational flow of small capital, petty capitalism, non-hegemonic globalization and globalization from below, the book presents low-income traders not as passive victims of globalization, but as active actors in the distribution of cheap goods across borders in the Global South.
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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.