1st Edition

Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property From the Cave to the Commons

By Johanna Gibson Copyright 2020
384 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property. Bringing together animal studies and legal philosophy, it articulates a critique of dominant property models and relationships from the perspective of cognitive ethology, domestication science and animal behaviour. In doing so, a radical new picture of... Read more

Contents





Acknowledgements





Preface: The Hunter and the Farmer and That Dog





Owned, A Dogged Tale of Property





Domestication, the Stone Age







  1. Canis Familiaris, the Invention of Domestication






  2. The Invention of Imitation






  3. Socialisation




  4. Territory, the Space Age





  5. Marking Territory






  6. Resource Guarding






  7. Separation Anxiety




  8. Dominance, the Machine Age





  9. Predatory Drift






  10. Pack Fiction






  11. Wild Abandon




  12. Altruism, the Social Age





  13. Shared Interests






  14. Resocialisation






  15. Res familiaris




Not the end of it

Biography

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at Queen Mary, University of London, where she teaches and researches in intellectual property, creative industries, and animal law and welfare. Gibson is the author of several other Routledge monographs, including, Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health (2017), The Logic of Innovation (2014), Creating Selves (2006), and Community Resource (2005). Along with the humans, she shares her home with four rescue dogs and four rescue cats, all arriving with wildly disjunctive stories.