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‘Staying with the trouble’:* Environmental justice for the anthropocene-capitalocene
Full text linkThis is the Editorial Introduction for a Research Collection on Environmental Justice. It makes the case for 'ontological justice' to become an explicit focus of environmental justice scholarship and activisms, while celebrating selected environmental justice texts chosen for the Research Collection
Towards a new horizon: in search of a new social and juridical imaginary
No full textThis chapter offers one passing presentation of the goal that the Oñati workshop set out towards. It is an attempt to draw together threads of philosophy, doctrine, policy, praxis and activism as an uneven thread in a far wider, urgent conversation bringing human rights and the environment into a new relationship. This new relationship necessarily requires, as I argue below, a radical worldview transformation inaugurating a new ‘human’ subjectivity and, inseparably, a new socio-juridical imaginary reflecting a new vision of ‘the world’
Towards new legal futures? In search of renewing foundations
No full textThe chapter's animating purpose is to reflect upon insights yielded by a lively confluence between critical environmental law scholarship and new materialist accounts (from which critical environmental law itself draws), placing these in direct engagement with a search for a renewing socio-juridical imaginary4 in which the relationship between human rights and the environment might be
re-imagined. The chapter begins by contextualising its concerns in the
semiotic and material dilemmas presented by the emergence of Anthropocene
discourse, especially concerning the construction of a new
universal humanity, before examining the shortfall of law’s response to
the climate crisis – and exploring some broad directions for a new
juridical imaginary holding out the promise of new human and environmental
foundations for law and legal processes
Introduction: ‘staying with the trouble’*—environmental justice for the Anthropocene–Capitalocene
Full text linkThis research collection takes an excitingly broad and refreshing approach to environmental justice, tracing the subject from its early developments to its contemporary need for a new non-anthropocentric ontology responsive to questions of human-non-human justice. Including an original introduction, this timely, rich collection of 24 of the best available research articles in the field offers a stimulating journey into the rich ambiguities, tensions and promise of environmental justice for the 21st century and beyond
Resisting anthropocene neoliberalism: Towards new materialist commoning?
Full text linkThis chapter argues that New Materialist thought offers an important contribution to the power of commoning as a form of onto-insurgency. The chapter introduces commons, commoning and the idea of “nature” as a fractious frontline between opposing forms of ontological politics, positioning the urgency of such politics against the horizon of the Anthropocene-Capitalocene. What might it mean, against such a horizon, to embrace non-human actants as commoners? In particular, might the attentiveness generated by New Materialist approaches produce ways of living against the deadening objectifications performed by neoliberalism? The chapter concludes that New Materialism offers a critically informed, injustice-sensitive grounding for commons ontology, and presents a rich ground for imaginative forms of onto-insurgency in an age of systematic oppression
Vulnerability, advanced global capitalism and co-symptomatic injustice: locating the vulnerable subject
No full textMulti-level governance for sustainability: reflections from a fractured discourse
No full textThis article reflects upon the subject of multilevel governance for sustainability, and in particular upon the challenges facing a move to an ethic of genuine ecological sustainability posed by the reductionism of corporate capitalism, using the corporate colonisation of international human rights law as a salutary example for reflection
Human Rights and the Environment: in Search of a New Relationship: Editor’s Introduction
No full textThe 2012 Onati Workshop, ‘Human Rights and the Environment: In Search of a New Relationship’, began to trace outa new, imaginative and paradigm-challenging framework calling on philosophy, legal doctrine, policy, praxis and activism and drawing them together in a coherent, but non-monolithic new socio-juridical approach to the important relationship between human rights and the environment. The workshop was part of the on-going work of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment (GNHRE) – the largest existing network of scholars in the world specifically addressing the important nexus between human rights as the dominant global language of ethical claim and the ‘environment’. In short, the GNHRE workshop at Onati developed the on-going efforts of the GNHRE network and its partners to contribute to the important task of re-imagining the human relationship with the living world. We were incredibly fortunate to be awarded an International Workshop by the Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law – and the papers in this collection were, in the main, presented as part of the workshop. The others (by Grear; and by Morrow, Kotze and Grant) were written later, in the light of the conversations and notes taken at the Workshop, and representa weaving together of insights and provocations emerging from the rich discussions taking place in June 2012 in Onati, Spain. El seminario ‘Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente: En busca de una nueva relación’, celebrado en Oñati en 2012, comenzó a trazar un marco nuevo e imaginativo, desafiando paradigmas, y apelando a la filosofía, la doctrina jurídica, la política, la praxis y el activismo, que elaboren juntos un nuevo enfoque socio-jurídico coherente, no monolítico, sobre la importante relación entre los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. El taller fue parte de la labor puesta en marcha por la Red Mundial para el Estudio de los Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (GNHRE) - la mayor red existente de académicos especializados en el importante nexo que existe entre los derechos humanos como lengua global dominante de reclamación ética y el ‘medio ambiente’. En resumen, el seminario de Oñati desarrolló los esfuerzos en curso de la red GNHRE y sus socios, para contribuir a la importante tarea de re-imaginar la relación humana con el mundo viviente. Fuimos increíblemente afortunados al concedérsenos un taller internacional en el Instituto de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati y los documentos de esta colección fueron presentados en su mayoría como parte del taller. Un par (por Grear, y por Morrow, Kotze y Grant) se escribieron después, a la luz de las conversaciones y notas tomadas en el taller, y representan un tejido de unión de ideas y provocaciones aparecidas en las ricas discusiones que tuvieron lugar en junio de 2012 en Oñati, España
The closures of legal subjectivity—why examining ‘law’s person’ is critical to an understanding of injustice in an age of climate crisis
No full textIt may not be immediately obvious what legal subjectivity and its underlying
assumptions have to do with the relationship between human rights and the environment.However, legal subjectivity is a, if not the, decisively important legal mediator of relations between law, humanity and environment. This chapter examines the centrality of legal subjectivity to an understanding of injustice in an age of climate crisis
Corporations, human rights, and the age of globalization: another look at the “dark side” in the Twenty-First Century
No full textThis chapter visits the themes of globalisation, corporate power, corporate rights claims and the difficulties of achieving corporate accountability for human rights abuses in international law
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