Intellectual Property Rights: Governing Cultural and Educational Futures

This article uses Foucauldian theories of governmentality to examine ways in which intellectual property rights regimes are embedded within broad spectrums of global and globalising discourses and yet are enacted through changing subjectivities at the local level. Using the 2004 Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement as a case in point, it shows how culture, education, free trade, foreign policy, and national security intersect and have the potential to limit access to cultural knowledge and textual resources for young people and educators