Chidi Oguamanam
Biographic Data
| ID | 457686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chidi Oguamanam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Oguamanam |
| SIGNATURE | OGUAMANAM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4301-9388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach
Law is intrinsically embedded in politics. Prevailing dynamics and norms can significantly impact new legal rules; hence, there is a need to interrogate the spectrum of engagements of any given subject or phenomenon with the law. In the context of global governance of food and agricultural data, this article examines how power manifests in the generation and use of agri-food data, how power could construct global rules on the use of agri-food dat…
Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana: A Gender-Based Insight into Embedded Intangible Cultural Heritage and Implications for the Implementation of the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage …
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage is designed to secure the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) worldwide.1 The Convention aims to safeguard and ensure respect for ICH of communities, groups, and persons and promote awareness of their significance and international protection in that regard.2 The Convention outlines intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in terms of oral traditions and expressions…
A Critical Examination of the African Legal Framework for Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous or traditional knowledge (TK) systems are the springboard of authentic African innovation and creativity. However, there has been no adequate attempt to determine whether Africa internalizes its comparative advantage in Indigenous knowledge systems in its continental frameworks for socio-economic and development collaboration and aspirations. Despite TK's presumed significance and Africa's proactive promotion of Indigenous knowledge in…
Transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation Framework and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Despite elaborate efforts at Science Technology and Innovation ( STI ) policy enunciation, Africa has yet to optimally engage with how best to locate and position Indigenous or traditional knowledge ( IK / TK ) and its stakeholders in the new and emergent technological dynamics often designated as the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and its bioeconomy components. Given the disconnect over IK / TK systems in African STI policy instruments, the …
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19
Lawyers’ Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-60: “The Fighting Brigade of the People”
Tension on the Farm Fields: The Death of Traditional Agriculture
Taking into account the historic transitions and progressions in agricultural science, this article examines the emergence of the phenomenon of agricultural biotechnology. It identifies pivotal sites of tension between agricultural biotechnology and alternative approaches to agriculture. The article identifies two distinct sources of contemporary social tension around agricultural science. First, it identifies the epistemological fault line and e…
Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: The Fighting Brigade of the People
This essay explores the role of the organized legal profession in relation to British Imperialism, state formation, and independence in Nigeria. Drawing on recent works in the fields of post-colonial legal studies and cultural histories of legal professions, the paper develops an understanding of lawyering and lawyers’ associations as deeply implicated in the myriad cultural projects through which law simultaneously ‘civilizes’ provincials and me…
International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine
"In this book, Chidi Oguamanam argues that the crisis of legitimacy that indigenous knowledge poses for the intellectual property system calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction." "Oguamanan's study draws from interdisciplinary research in the social and medical sciences. It uses as its framework of analysis the legal doctrinal methodology, focusing on international legal and policy developme…
Protecting indigenous knowledge in international law: Solidarity beyond the nation-state
As aspects of decolonisation, indigenous and other colonised peoples’ historical claims for cultural survival, and for distinct identity, remain unresolved issues in modern international law. Following the salt-water doctrine1 which resulted in the loss of solidarity between the indigenous peoples in the enclave colonies and their counterparts in the third world, these claims have been pursued, for the most part, by the former within a narrow pol…
International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine
"In this book, Chidi Oguamanam argues that the crisis of legitimacy that indigenous knowledge poses for the intellectual property system calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction." "Oguamanan's study draws from interdisciplinary research in the social and medical sciences. It uses as its framework of analysis the legal doctrinal methodology, focusing on international legal and policy developme…
Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: The Fighting Brigade of the People
This essay explores the role of the organized legal profession in relation to British Imperialism, state formation, and independence in Nigeria. Drawing on recent works in the fields of post-colonial legal studies and cultural histories of legal professions, the paper develops an understanding of lawyering and lawyers’ associations as deeply implicated in the myriad cultural projects through which law simultaneously ‘civilizes’ provincials and me…
Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana: A Gender-Based Insight into Embedded Intangible Cultural Heritage and Implications for the Implementation of the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage …
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage is designed to secure the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) worldwide.1 The Convention aims to safeguard and ensure respect for ICH of communities, groups, and persons and promote awareness of their significance and international protection in that regard.2 The Convention outlines intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in terms of oral traditions and expressions…
Protecting indigenous knowledge in international law: Solidarity beyond the nation-state
As aspects of decolonisation, indigenous and other colonised peoples’ historical claims for cultural survival, and for distinct identity, remain unresolved issues in modern international law. Following the salt-water doctrine1 which resulted in the loss of solidarity between the indigenous peoples in the enclave colonies and their counterparts in the third world, these claims have been pursued, for the most part, by the former within a narrow pol…
International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine
"In this book, Chidi Oguamanam argues that the crisis of legitimacy that indigenous knowledge poses for the intellectual property system calls for a rethinking of the intellectual property jurisprudence in a cross-cultural direction." "Oguamanan's study draws from interdisciplinary research in the social and medical sciences. It uses as its framework of analysis the legal doctrinal methodology, focusing on international legal and policy developme…
Tension on the Farm Fields: The Death of Traditional Agriculture
Taking into account the historic transitions and progressions in agricultural science, this article examines the emergence of the phenomenon of agricultural biotechnology. It identifies pivotal sites of tension between agricultural biotechnology and alternative approaches to agriculture. The article identifies two distinct sources of contemporary social tension around agricultural science. First, it identifies the epistemological fault line and e…
Lawyers' Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-1960: The Fighting Brigade of the People
This essay explores the role of the organized legal profession in relation to British Imperialism, state formation, and independence in Nigeria. Drawing on recent works in the fields of post-colonial legal studies and cultural histories of legal professions, the paper develops an understanding of lawyering and lawyers’ associations as deeply implicated in the myriad cultural projects through which law simultaneously ‘civilizes’ provincials and me…
Lawyers’ Professionalism, Colonialism, State Formation, and National Life in Nigeria, 1900-60: “The Fighting Brigade of the People”
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Covid-19
Transition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Africa’s Science, Technology and Innovation Framework and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Despite elaborate efforts at Science Technology and Innovation ( STI ) policy enunciation, Africa has yet to optimally engage with how best to locate and position Indigenous or traditional knowledge ( IK / TK ) and its stakeholders in the new and emergent technological dynamics often designated as the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and its bioeconomy components. Given the disconnect over IK / TK systems in African STI policy instruments, the …
A Critical Examination of the African Legal Framework for Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous or traditional knowledge (TK) systems are the springboard of authentic African innovation and creativity. However, there has been no adequate attempt to determine whether Africa internalizes its comparative advantage in Indigenous knowledge systems in its continental frameworks for socio-economic and development collaboration and aspirations. Despite TK's presumed significance and Africa's proactive promotion of Indigenous knowledge in…
Power Contestations in the Use of Agri-food Data: Towards a Sustainability Governance Approach
Law is intrinsically embedded in politics. Prevailing dynamics and norms can significantly impact new legal rules; hence, there is a need to interrogate the spectrum of engagements of any given subject or phenomenon with the law. In the context of global governance of food and agricultural data, this article examines how power manifests in the generation and use of agri-food data, how power could construct global rules on the use of agri-food dat…
Kente Weaving Among Akan and Ewe Peoples of Ghana: A Gender-Based Insight into Embedded Intangible Cultural Heritage and Implications for the Implementation of the Unesco Intangible Cultural Heritage …
The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage is designed to secure the protection of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) worldwide.1 The Convention aims to safeguard and ensure respect for ICH of communities, groups, and persons and promote awareness of their significance and international protection in that regard.2 The Convention outlines intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in terms of oral traditions and expressions…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Intellectual property (3 works)