Description: Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how intellectual property conflicts have brought about new cleavages in the knowledge society and new collective actors.
Brief description: Sebastian Haunss is a senior researcher in political science at the University of Bremen, where his research interests are social conflicts and political mobilisations in the knowledge society, changes in political and economic legitimacy, social networks and social movements.
Review Quotes: "[Haunss] considers that "the politicization of IP ... is embedded in more wide-ranging processes of social change associated with the transformation of industrial societies into knowledge societies". The book states that from those conflicts have emerged new collective actors 'with the ability to contest the existing dominant order."
Maëli Astruc, Intellectual Property Watch