Project
The work of culture in an age of informational capital
The major project is to outline and pursue further research on the forthcoming book, titled ‘Intellectual Property and its Publics: The Work of Culture in an Era of Informational Capital’ which explores new pressures and tendencies to treat culture as a resource and the growing propensity to claim rights on cultural grounds under neoliberal capitalism.
Project
Emerging Legal Geographies of Cultural Rights
This project explores the intensification of interest in culture as the basis for new forms of development and the assertion of new rights.
Project
Reframing the Right to Education in International Law (and Deconstructing “Cultural Rights” More Broadly)
Changed circumstances since the adoption of the primary international human rights treaties, a multitude of scattered education rights norms, and distinct new challenges require a reframing of the right to education in international law.
Publication
‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights
Rosemary J. Coombe. 2009. ‘Possessing Culture’: Political Economies of Community Subjects and Cultural Rights. Ownership and Appropriation