Locating Nature

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-73969-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

For those troubled by environmental harm on a global scale and its deeply unequal effects, this book explains how international law structures ecological degradation and environmental injustice while claiming to protect the environment. It identifies how central legal concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, territory, development, environment, labour and human rights make inaccurate and unsustainable assumptions about the natural world and systemically reproduce environmental degradation and injustice. To avert socioecological crises, we must not only unpack but radically rework our understandings of nature and its relationship with law. We propose more sustainable and equitable ways to remake law's relationship with nature by drawing on diverse disciplines and sociocultural traditions that have been marginalized within international law. Influenced by Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), postcolonialism and decoloniality, and inspired by Indigenous knowledges, cosmology, mythology and storytelling, this book lays the groundwork for an epistemological shift in the way humans conceptualize the relationship between law and nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Natarajan, Usha

Dehm, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: where is the environment? Locating nature in international law Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm; Part I. Locating Nature in International Law: Towards New Thinking: 1. Locating nature: making and unmaking international law Usha Natarajan and Kishan Khoday; 2. From classical liberalism to neoliberalism: explaining the contradictions in the international environmental law project Hélène Mayrand; 3. Reconfiguring environmental governance in the green economy: extraction, stewardship and natural capital Julia Dehm; Part II. Unmaking International Law: 4. Appropriating nature: commerce, property and the commodification of nature in the Law of Nations Ileana Porras; 5. Reflections on a political ecology of sovereignty: engaging international law and 'the map' Tyler McCreary and Vanessa Lamb; 6. The maps of international law: perceptions of nature in the classification of territory beyond the state Karin Mickelson; 7. Denaturalising the concept of territory in international law Cait Storr; 8. Who do we think we are? Human rights in a time of ecological change Usha Natarajan; 9. Law, labour and landscape in a just transition Adrian A. Smith and Dayna Nadine Scott; Part III. Alternatives and Remakings: 10. Three enclosures of international law: commoning premises, processes and aims Darina Petrova and Tomaso Ferrando; 11. The mythic environment: ecocosmology and narrative remakings of environmental consciousness Kishan Khoday; 12. Law and politics of the human/nature: exploring the foundations and institutions of the 'rights of nature' Roger Merino; 13. Narrating nature: climate imaginaries in international law Kathleen Birrell; 14. Inter-nation relationships and the natural world as relation Irene Watson; Conclusion: Remaking International Law Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm.

Über Autor(innen)

Natarajan, Usha
Usha Natarajan is Edward W. Said fellow at Columbia University. She is a leader in the TWAIL movement and a founding editor of the TWAIL Review. Her research on environmental justice in the Global South received the International Union for Conservation of Nature Environmental Law Award. With over forty publications, she has led global research grants from the EU and Canada and has worked with the United Nations.

Dehm, Julia
Julia Dehm is senior lecturer at La Trobe University Law School. Her research addresses international and domestic climate and environmental law, natural resources, human rights, economic inequality and social justice. She is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and author of Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge, 2021).