Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon: The Lawness of Life (Law, Justice and Ecology)

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Extending law beyond the human, the book examines the conceptual openings, methodological challenges, and ethical conundrums of law in a time of socio-ecological transition. How do we learn and practice law across epistemic and ontological difference? What sort of methodologies do we need? In what sense does conjuring other-than-human beings as sentient, cognitive and social agents—rather than mere recipients of state-sanctioned rights—transform what we mean by law and rights of nature in Latin America and beyond? Legal institutions exclusively focused on human perspectives seem insufficiently capable of addressing current socio-ecological challenges in Latin America and beyond. In response, this book strives to integrate other-than-human beings within legal thinking, institutions, and decision-making protocols. Weaving together various fields of knowledge and worldmaking practices that include – but are not limited to – Indigenous legal traditions, ecological law, multispecies ethnography, and ecological economics, the book pursues a multi-sited ethnography that focuses on the entanglement of law, ecology, and Indigenous cosmologies in Southern Colombia. In so doing, it articulates a general post-anthropocentric legal theory which is proposed, a tool to address socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and bio-cultural loss. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the disciplines of environmental law, Earth law and ecological law, legal theory and critical legal studies; as well as others working in the in the fields of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, legal anthropology, and sustainability and climate change justice.
Copyright:
2024

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9781003849209
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9781032393698, 9781032393674, 9781003349426
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Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio. The right of Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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