This book provides a reimagining of how Western law and legal
theory structures the human–earth relationship. As a complement
to contemporary efforts to establish rights of nature and non-human
legal personhood, this book focuses on the other subject in the
human–earth relationship: the human. Critical ecological feminism
exposes the dualistic nature of the ideal human legal subject as a
key driver in the dynamic of instrumentalism that characterises the
human–earth relationship in Western culture. This book draws on
conceptual fields associated with the new sciences, including new
materialism, posthuman critical theory and Big History, to
demonstrate that the naturalised hierarchy of humans over nature in
the Western social imaginary is anything but natural. It then sets
about constructing a counternarrative. The proposed ‘Cosmic
Person’ as alternative, non-dualised human legal subject forges a
pathway for transforming the Western cultural understanding of the
human–earth relationship from mastery and control to ideal
co-habitation. Finally, the book details a case study, highlighting
the practical application of the proposed reconceptualisation of
the human legal subject to contemporary environmental issues. This
original and important analysis of the legal status of the human in
the Anthropocene will be of great interest to those working in
legal theory, jurisprudence, environmental law and the
environmental humanities; as well as those with relevant interests
in gender studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, critical
theory and philosophy.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Law, Justice and Ecology |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Jana Norman
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
186 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-205340-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-205340-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781032053400 |
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