Wilhelm Peekhaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 5934453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilhelm Peekhaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilhelm |
| FAMILY NAME | Peekhaus |
| SIGNATURE | PEEKHAUS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0207-6140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biotechnology
This entry highlights some of the major communicational and informational issues that inhere in contemporary biotechnology. After briefly reviewing the scientific breakthroughs that facilitated this technoscience, attention turns to the various metaphors and conceptual models imported from communication and information studies to conceptualize our changing understanding of genetics and biotechnology. The treatment offered here also articulates so…
South Africa's Promotion of Access to Information Act
Is South Africa's constitutional right of access to information working in practice? According to the author, it still faces substantial political and commercial resistance, and the success of the courts in enforcing its implementing legislation, the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), is mixed. The article reviews how the courts have interpreted and enforced the provisions of PAIA. More than a decade after its promulgation, the Act re…
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing
This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspective various aspects and tensions that inhere in the contemporary academic publishing environment. The focus of the article is on journal publishing. The paper examines both the expanding capitalist control of the academic publishing industry and some of the efforts being made by those seeking to resist and subvert the capitalist model of academic publishing. The paper emplo…
Biowatch South Africa and the challenges in enforcing its constitutional right to access to information
Primitive Accumulation and Enclosure of the Commons
Legal decisions in the case of Percy Schmeiser, who was sued by Monsanto for patent infringement, are related to the attempt by the Organic Agriculture Protection Fund to obtain class certification in its efforts to sue Monsanto and Bayer for genetic contamination of organic canola. Together these two cases establish an unacceptable incongruity at common law between the rights enjoyed by intellectual property owners and any corresponding duties t…
The Neoliberal University and Agricultural Biotechnology
Following in the footsteps of a variety of previous research that elaborates on the current state of affairs in academia, this article sets out the argument that neoliberalism and its corresponding iterations of science and technology and research funding policies in this country have implications for the types of knowledge that can be generated within and communicated without contemporary institutions of higher education. Using agricultural biot…
Research in the Biotech Age
This article examines the privacy of personal medical information in the health research context. Arguing that biomedical research in Canada has been caught up in the government's broader neoliberal policy agenda that has positioned biotechnology as a strategic driver of economic growth, the author discusses the tension between informational privacy and the need for medical information for research purposes. Consideration is given to the debate a…
Personal health information in Canada
Personal health information in Canada
Research in the Biotech Age
This article examines the privacy of personal medical information in the health research context. Arguing that biomedical research in Canada has been caught up in the government's broader neoliberal policy agenda that has positioned biotechnology as a strategic driver of economic growth, the author discusses the tension between informational privacy and the need for medical information for research purposes. Consideration is given to the debate a…
The Neoliberal University and Agricultural Biotechnology
Following in the footsteps of a variety of previous research that elaborates on the current state of affairs in academia, this article sets out the argument that neoliberalism and its corresponding iterations of science and technology and research funding policies in this country have implications for the types of knowledge that can be generated within and communicated without contemporary institutions of higher education. Using agricultural biot…
Biowatch South Africa and the challenges in enforcing its constitutional right to access to information
Primitive Accumulation and Enclosure of the Commons
Legal decisions in the case of Percy Schmeiser, who was sued by Monsanto for patent infringement, are related to the attempt by the Organic Agriculture Protection Fund to obtain class certification in its efforts to sue Monsanto and Bayer for genetic contamination of organic canola. Together these two cases establish an unacceptable incongruity at common law between the rights enjoyed by intellectual property owners and any corresponding duties t…
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing
This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspective various aspects and tensions that inhere in the contemporary academic publishing environment. The focus of the article is on journal publishing. The paper examines both the expanding capitalist control of the academic publishing industry and some of the efforts being made by those seeking to resist and subvert the capitalist model of academic publishing. The paper emplo…
South Africa's Promotion of Access to Information Act
Is South Africa's constitutional right of access to information working in practice? According to the author, it still faces substantial political and commercial resistance, and the success of the courts in enforcing its implementing legislation, the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), is mixed. The article reviews how the courts have interpreted and enforced the provisions of PAIA. More than a decade after its promulgation, the Act re…
Biotechnology
This entry highlights some of the major communicational and informational issues that inhere in contemporary biotechnology. After briefly reviewing the scientific breakthroughs that facilitated this technoscience, attention turns to the various metaphors and conceptual models imported from communication and information studies to conceptualize our changing understanding of genetics and biotechnology. The treatment offered here also articulates so…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Legislation (3 works)