RT Journal Article
T1 Can rights of nature save us from the anthropocene catastrophe? Some critical reflections from the field
A1 Viaene, Lieselotte
AB The world can no longer deny that the planet is on the verge of an Anthropocene catastrophe. As scientists from different fields and from around the globe are discussing the causes, impacts, challenges, and solutions to the arrival of this human-induced new geological time, the field of law cannot remain behind. Rights of Nature (RoN), granting legal personhood to nature and its elements such as rivers, is an emerging transnational legal framework fast gaining international traction among Euro-American legal scholars as a new tool to combat environmental destruction. Grounded in reflections derived from long-term collaborative ethnographic work among indigenous communities, this article aims to critically and empirically unpack several interrelated concerns and blind spots at this moment of the RoN snowballing effect around the globe related to claims that this new legal proposal is rooted in indigenous lifestyles and views about nature/the environment.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 2052-9015
YR 2022
FD 2022-05-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36701
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/36701
LA eng
NO The writing of the article was possible thanks to a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) entitled “RIVERS—Water/Human Rights beyond the Human? Indigenous Water Ontologies, Plurilegal Encounters and Interlegal Translation (2019–2024),” Grant Agreement 804003, under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2016–2018) GROUNDHR—Challenges of Grounding Universal Human Rights, “Indigenous Epistemologies of Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue in Consultation Processes on Natural Resource Exploitation” (Grant Agreement 708096).
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