
Dr Saskia Vermeylen
Reader
Law
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Publications
- Are ecological processes that select beneficial traits in agricultural microbes nature's intellectual property rights?
- Kothamasi David, Vermeylen Saskia, Sharma Deepika
- Nature Biotechnology Vol 41, pp. 1381–1384 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01966-7
- Rethinking vulnerability as a radically ethical device : ethical vulnerability analysis and the EU's "migration crisis"
- Da Lomba Sylvie, Vermeylen Saskia
- Human Rights Review Vol 24, pp. 263-288 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-023-00685-5
- Understanding the rights of nature : working together across and beyond disciplines
- Gilbert Jeremie, Soliev Ilkhom, Robertson Anne, Vermeylen Saskia, Williams Neil W, Grabowski Robert C
- Human Ecology Vol 51, pp. 363-377 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00420-1
- Navigating a sea of laws : small-scale fishing communities and customary rights in Ghana and South Africa
- Christoffels-DuPlessis Anthea, Erinosho Bolanle, Major Laura, Morgera Elisa, Sunde Jackie, Vermeylen Saskia
- The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage (2022) (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_18
- Unconditional hospitality in times of Covid-19 : rethinking social welfare provisions for asylum seekers in Scotland through ethical vulnerability analysis
- Da Lomba Sylvie, Vermeylen Saskia
- International Journal of Law in Context (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552322000192
- The pluriversity for stuck humans: a queer, decolonial school eco-pedagogy
- McGarry D, Weber L, James A, Kulundu I, Amit S, Temper L, Macintyre T, Shelton R, Pereira T, Chaves C, Kuany S, Turhan E, Cockburn J, Metelerkamp L, Bajpai S, Bengtsson S, Vermeylen Saskia, Lotz-Sisitka H, Khutsoane T
- Queer Ecopedagogies Explorations in Nature, Sexuality, and Education (2021) (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65368-2
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Professional Activities
- Simon Makuvaza
- Host
- 6/2019
- Property Theory and Nomadic Thinking
- Speaker
- 25/7/2018
- Space Law and Science Fiction Literature
- Speaker
- 27/5/2018
- Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
- Speaker
- 10/5/2018
- Space Law
- Speaker
- 29/10/2017
- XVI Biennial IASC-Conference: Practising the Commons: From recognition to re-enclosure of the commons: examining impacts, challenges and opportunities of formal legal recognition of the commons
- Participant
- 14/7/2017
Projects
- Representing the Rights of Nature - Learning from the Mãori
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
- Exhibition EXTR-Activism Space Law and Afrofuturism
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- EXTR-Actvism presents artistic positions that challenge the new commercial space race for mineral extractivism. International space law - a product of the Cold War era - is ambiguous in its language as it is unclear if commercial mining, governed through private property rights, is allowed under the Outer Space Treaty (1967). The artworks selected for this exhibition explore the notions of extractivism and neo-colonialism of the commercial space era against the background of African countries developing their own space programme.
The exhibition retells the story of extractivism and space travel from the perspective of Afronauts. The forgotten histories, contested legacies and repressed memories of space travel are explored through a plethora of art practices that seek to blur the boundaries and distinctions between fiction and reality. - 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- Guardians of the Rivers" and the future of Earth Law: towards a new Legal, Ecological and Participatory (LEAP) model for Environmental Humanities?
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2020 - 11-Jan-2021
- MICROB-COM Microbial Commons: Building a legal instrument for farmers rights on agricultural microbial resources H2020 MCSA-IF2019
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2022
- Rock art and cultural heritage law in Zimbabwe
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- This research addresses the San’s human right to access land and develop inclusive economic activities through tourism in Hwange national park in Zimbabwe. The project focuses specifically on recording and using cultural heritage as evidence of ancestral settlement and inclusive economic development in the national parks. The San have been exposed to land evictions dating back 2000 years ago when agriculturalists displaced them. Dispossession continued in the colonial period when their lands were appropriated to create national parks and private farms for colonial administrators. Unfortunately, evictions still exist after independence when new economic developments are being pursued such as tourism and mining.This research addresses the San’s human right to access land and develop inclusive economic activities through tourism in two national parks: Hwange in Zimbabwe and Chobe in Botswana. The project focuses specifically on recording and using cultural heritage as evidence of ancestral settlement and inclusive economic development in the national parks. The San have been exposed to land evictions dating back 2000 years ago when agriculturalists displaced them. Dispossession continued in the colonial period when their lands were appropriated to create national parks and private farms for colonial administrators. Unfortunately, evictions still exist after independence when new economic developments are being pursued such as tourism and mining. Combining law, archaeology and tourism, this project seeks to document the San’s cultural heritage in the national parks as evidence to support land claims and inclusive tourism.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- Utopian Literatures and Space Law
- Vermeylen, Saskia (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2022