Knowledge Commons and Intellectual Property Justice

Sor Juana wrote in an era when women were systematically excluded from intellectual life, yet she drew freely from Catholic theology, natural philosophy, and indigenous American contexts. She understood knowledge as dialogical—built through conversation across boundaries. Modern climate justice faces distortion when green technologies are locked behind patents while indigenous land management practices are stolen without credit or compensation. This concept advocates treating climate knowledge as commons: open-source renewable energy designs, freely shared agricultural knowledge, protection of indigenous intellectual property rights, and resistance to pharmaceutical and agricultural monopolies. Sor Juana's cosmopolitan intellectual approach demonstrates how knowledge thrives through openness, attribution, and collective access. Climate solutions developed collaboratively and shared freely will scale faster and serve justice better than those constrained by extraction-based property regimes.