Allison Fish
- Email:
- a.fish@law.uq.edu.au
- Phone:
- +61 7 336 59104
- Phone:
- +61 7 344 33116
Overview
Background
Dr. Allison Fish is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research lies at the intersections of law, socio-cultural anthropology, and science and technology studies. She has completed higher degree studies in law (JD), public administration (MPA), and anthropology (PhD). Prior to joining UQ Dr. Fish was an assistant professor in the School of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University.
The three questions that have directed much of her recent work are: What are the legal forms, technological infrastructures, and cultural logics that shape information/knowledge management practices? How do law and technology function together to mediate access? And How is accessibility increasingly framed as a fundamental human right and critical pathway to social enfranchisement?
To date, the bulk of her research has addressed the application of intellectual property law to the regulation of various domains including; international markets for South Asian classical health systems, the development of digital archives and databases designed to function as defensive publications against future patents, the impact of open access on scholarly communication practices, and licensing and attribution practices in open source software communities.
Availability
- Associate Professor Allison Fish is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of California-Irvine
Works
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2011
Journal Article
Community Building at American Anthropologist
Fish, Allison E. (2011). Community Building at American Anthropologist. American Anthropologist, 113 (1), 4-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01302.x
2011
Journal Article
Workflow concerns and workarounds of readers in an urban safety net teleretinal screening study
Fish, Allison, George, Sheba, Terrien, Elizabeth, Eccles, Alicia, Baker, Richard and Ogunyemi, Omolola (2011). Workflow concerns and workarounds of readers in an urban safety net teleretinal screening study. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2011, 417-426.
2011
Conference Publication
Workflow concerns and workarounds of readers in an urban safety net teleretinal screening study
Fish, Allison, George, Sheba, Terrein, Elizabeth, Eccles, Alicia, Baker, Richard and Ogunyemi, Omolola (2011). Workflow concerns and workarounds of readers in an urban safety net teleretinal screening study. Conference Proceedings for the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC, United States, 22 - 26 October 2011. Bethesda, MD, United States: American Medical Informatics Association.
2011
Journal Article
Teleretinal screening for diabetic retinopathy in six Los Angeles urban safety-net clinics: initial findings
Ogunyemi, Omolola, Terrien, Elizabeth, Eccles, Alicia, Patty, Lauren, George, Sheba, Fish, Allison, Teklehaimanot, Senait, Ilapakurthi, Ramarao, Aimiuwu, Otaren and Baker, Richard (2011). Teleretinal screening for diabetic retinopathy in six Los Angeles urban safety-net clinics: initial findings. AMIA Annual Symposium proceedings, 2011, 1027-1035.
2011
Conference Publication
Teleretinal screening for diabetic retinopathy in six Los Angeles urban safety-net clinics: initial findings
Ogunyemi, Omolola, Terrien, Elizabeth, Eccles, Alicia, Patty, Lauren, George, Sheba, Fish, Allison, Tekleheimanot, Senait, Ilapakurthi, Ramarao, Aimiuwu, Otaren and Baker, Richard (2011). Teleretinal screening for diabetic retinopathy in six Los Angeles urban safety-net clinics: initial findings. Conference Proceedings for the American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC, United States, 22 - 26 October 2011. Bethesda, MD, United States: American Medical Informatics Association.
2006
Journal Article
The commodification and exchange of knowledge in the case of transnational yoga
Fish, Allison (2006). The commodification and exchange of knowledge in the case of transnational yoga. The International Journal of Cultural Property, 13 (2), 189-206. doi: 10.1017/S0940739106060127
Funding
Current funding
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Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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The Impact of Computational Technologies on the Practice of Law and the Legal Profession
This project explores the impact of computational technologies on the practice of law and the legal profession in the United States and Australia. Compared to other fields, such as finance, the legal profession is a relatively late adopter of new technologies, however, this is beginning to rapidly change. This project focuses on understanding the larger socio-technical environment that legal actors are facing and does so by taking a holistic approach that investigates how computational systems, composed of numerous technologies, are arranged and coordinated, as well as which tools become embedded into everyday legal work. The project is based on the idea that incorporating new technologies into social settings, including legal work spaces, is not a seamless or straightforward process and often requires significant changes and these changes must be understood in context.
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Laying Claim to Yoga: Intellectual Property, Cultural Rights, and the Digital Archive in India
This project explores recent developments surrounding a key legal mechanism impacting access to and circulation of valuable knowledge – namely, intellectual and cultural property rights (IPRs). The project addresses the use of IPRs in the globalization and commodification of South Asian traditional health/spiritual systems conjoined in yoga and the ramifications this has for local and international markets, as well as global perceptions for South Asia as a site of creativity and innovation. The project also looks at the role that digital technologies play in protecting traditional knowledge and the impact that this defensive publication and anti-patenting strategy has on local and cultural practices. A key part of the project is a critical discussion of the way that people think about how law and technology interact with one another and how law changes over time to accommodate new objects and shifting attitudes. Specifically, this work challenges the commonly held idea that techno-scientific innovations constantly outpace legal change. I argue that this deterministic account is flawed and problematically frames law as merely a reflective and reactive mechanism that is constantly struggling behind in the wake of socio-technical change. The project is based on ethnographic fieldwork that took place over 24 months in India, California, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
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Between Production and Consumption: Tracing the Techno-Legal Lives of Commodities Moving Through International Commerce
Since 2001 there has been an increasing concern with national security in many countries throughout the world, including both Australia and the United States. This concern has led to significant legal changes supporting an intensified monitoring of both land and sea borders in an attempt to ensure that the legitimate international flows of goods and people take place at geographically constrained border ports-of-entry. In this sense, the border port-of-entry has become an increasingly narrow choke-point through which commodities and people must pass if they are to move between nation-states. During this same time period, however, the actual means of surveillance at border ports-of-entry has undergone a rapid transformation; expanding from face-to-face and paper-based mediums to include a complex assemblage of new and old technologies (e.g., x-rays, mirrors, biometric scans, chemical trace screenings, and internet-based tracking platforms). The purpose of this expansion is to eventually create no-stop border ports-of-entry that seamlessly identifies, tracks, and ensures only legitimate commodities and people enter into the nation-state at these points. In international commerce, accelerated passage through border ports is highly desirable as a cost saving mechanism that is of particular benefit for perishable commodities subject to spoilage (e.g., agricultural products, seafood, etc.). This project employs a comparative ethnographic approach aimed at elucidating how this tension, between national security and market interests, is navigated in the design and adoption of the new technologies that are being selected and tested at three specific ports-of-entry (Long Beach, Ambos Nogales, and Brisbane). A comparative ethnographic project of these sites will enhance understanding regarding how two nation-states, similarly situated in terms of socioeconomic and political standing, are using law and technology to strike a balance vis-a-vis competing interests.
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman, Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa
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Doctor Philosophy
Managing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Forest Dwelling Scheduled Tribes of India
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dylan Lino
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Doctor Philosophy
Managing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Forest Dwelling Scheduled Tribes of India
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dylan Lino
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Doctor Philosophy
Using marks and designations to build and sustain local food and agriculture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, Professor Brad Sherman
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Doctor Philosophy
Diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) in innovation and patent inventorship in quantum biotechnology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Smerdon
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Doctor Philosophy
Protection, access, and benefit sharing of Australian Indigenous Knowledge: Proposing a dynamic framework model
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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Doctor Philosophy
Molecular optomechanics for single molecule fingerprinting
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Mr Igor Marinkovic, Professor Warwick Bowen
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Doctor Philosophy
Informal and formal justice for rape: Digital "court" and court trials in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko, Dr Jonah Rimer
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Doctor Philosophy
The Rise of Brand Name Fruit: Apples and Signification in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge
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Doctor Philosophy
SEPs in Biotechnology Spectrum
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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Doctor Philosophy
The repatriation of plant products: what should be repatriated and how?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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Doctor Philosophy
The Rise of Brand Name Fruit: Apples and Signification in Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Babidge
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Accommodating Artificial Intelligence-generated Works in Indonesian Copyright Law: Challenges and Possibilities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The Role of the law in the circulation of the Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brad Sherman
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