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Personal profile
Personal Statement
I am a socio-legal property scholar contributing to related but distinctive research areas:
- Cultural property: This work has been mainly developed around legal anthropology and I have developed new understandings of legal pluralism and customary law of indigenous peoples in the area of cultural property. I have conducted for over 15 years multi-site ethnography in 4 Southern African countries across 6 different San language groups.
- Property theory and ethics: I have developed a Levinasian based property theory which I have conceptualise as property as generosity. In this work, I engage extensively with continental philosophy, besides Levinas, I also draw upon Jacques Derrida. Methodologically, I use phenomenology through literary studies with a strong focus on postcolonial literature which I apply to different concepts of property.
- Property frontiers: I critique the extension of liberal property discourses into new and accelerated property regimes with a specific focus on outer space and the common heritage principle. This research is methodologically strongly embedded in literary studies with a very strong focus on AfricanFUTURISM, ecocriticism and science fiction. Increasingly this work also extends to visual and performative art, including curating, commissioning and developing site-specific arts.
- Materialities of property: This body of work engages methodologically with feminist posthumanism, eco-philosophy and speculative philosophy and I apply this to new property regimes in the area of microbes, deep seabed and fugitive natural resources.
External positions
Visiting Fellow, Rhodes University
1 Sep 2020 → …Visiting Scholar, University of Edinburgh
1 Sep 2014 → 23 Dec 2014Visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley
15 Aug 2013 → 23 Dec 2013Fingerprint
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Projects
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MICROB-COM Microbial Commons: Building a legal instrument for farmers rights on agricultural microbial resources H2020 MCSA-IF2019
European Commission - Horizon 2020
1/05/20 → 30/04/22
Project: Research Fellowship
Research Output
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Special issue: Epistemic violence and environmental justice
Vermeylen, S., 1 Dec 2019, In: Local Environment : The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 24, 2, p. 89-93 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)4 Downloads (Pure) -
A human right to science? Precarious labor and basic rights in science and bioprospecting
Neimark, B. D. & Vermeylen, S., 31 Jan 2017, In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 107, 1, p. 167-182 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile5 Citations (Scopus)21 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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Simon Makuvaza
Saskia Vermeylen (Host)
Jun 2019 → Aug 2019Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Property Theory and Nomadic Thinking
Saskia Vermeylen (Speaker)
25 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk