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Local coastal communities and their ways of knowing. Ocean tales from the past and looking into the future

Massimi, Michela and Brown, Abbe E.L. and Jaspars, Marcel (2026) Local coastal communities and their ways of knowing. Ocean tales from the past and looking into the future. [Preprint]

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Abstract

This chapter spells out some of the philosophical, legal, scientific aspects behind the blanket term ‘local knowledge’. Starting with the UN Biological Diversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, we elucidate three main varieties of local knowledges and their inter-relations, building on Massimi’s (2025) “Local knowledges and the right to participate in science”. We present two historical examples of local knowledges by coastal communities in the Hebrides, Scotland, and in the Jeju Island, South Korea. We then apply
these conceptual distinctions to bear on a hypothetical scenario where all three varieties are all at play in relation to the use of marine biological resources. This paves the way to a discussion of injustices in how local knowledges are often reductively identified and severed in scientific narratives and a further discussion of intellectual property rights in relation to local knowledges. The chapter ends by discussing some possible implications for ongoing debates
concerning the implementation of the BBNJ Agreement.

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Massimi, Michelamichela.massimi@ed.ac.uk0000-0001-6626-9174
Brown, Abbe E.L.abbe.brown@abdn.ac.uk
Jaspars, Marcelm.jaspars@abdn.ac.uk
Keywords: local knowledge, BBNJ Agreement, marine biodiscovery, intellectual ownership, epistemic trademarking
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Environmental Science
General Issues > Science and Policy
Depositing User: Michela Massimi
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2026 18:47
Last Modified: 24 Feb 2026 18:47
Item ID: 28332
Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ways-of-wo...
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Environmental Science
General Issues > Science and Policy
Date: 24 May 2026
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/28332

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