Full Description
This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.
While the critical study of anthropocentrism has been under way for several years, it has either focused on specific subfields of international law or emanated from two distinctive strands inspired by the animal rights movement and deep ecology. This handbook offers a broader study of anthropocentrism in international law as a global legal system and academic field. It assesses the extent to which current international law is anthropocentric, contextualises that claim in relation to broader critical theories of anthropocentrism, and explores alternative ways for international law to organise relations between humans and other living and non-living entities.
This book will interest international lawyers, environmental lawyers, legal theorists, social theorists, and those concerned with the philosophy and ethics of ecology and the non-human realms.
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by University of Gothenburg and Lund University.
Contents
Unveiling the Anthropocentrism of International Law 1. 'One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation': Sovereignty as Anthropocentric Extraction Mario Prost 2. The Anthropocentrism of Human Rights Frédéric Mégret 3. International Trade Law and the Commodification of the Living Charlotte E. Blattner 4. Anthropocentrism and International Environmental Law Vito De Lucia 5. The Law of the Sea's Fluid Anthropocentrism Godwin E.K. Dzah 6. Ordering Human-Other relationships: International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts in the Anthropocene Matilda Arvidsson and Britta Sjöstedt Conceptualising the Anthropocentrism of International Law 7. Anthropocentrism and Critical Approaches to International Law Hélène Mayrand and Valérie Chevrier-Marineau 8. International Law, Legal Anthropocentrism, and Facing the Planetary Anna Grear 9. Towards an Ecofeminist Critique of International Law? Karen Morrow 10. Indigenous Knowledge and International (Anthropocentric) Law: The Politics of Thinking from (and for) Another World Roger Merino 11. Earth Jurisprudence: Anthropocentrism and Neoliberal Rationality Peter Burdon and Samuel Alexander 12. Global Animal Law, Pain, and Death: An International Law for the Dominion Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela Imagining a Non-Anthropocentric International Law 13. What Would a Post-Anthropocentric Legal System Look Like? Ugo Mattei and Michael W. Monterossi 14. A Non-Anthropocentric Indigenous Research Methodology: The Anishinabe Waterdrum, Residential Schools, and Settler Colonialism Valarie G. Waboose 15. Non-Human Animals as Epistemic Subjects of International Law Vincent Chapaux 16. Grounding Ecocide, Humanity, and International Law Tim Lindgren 17. Formless Infinite: Law beyond the Anthropocene and the Earth System Elena Cirkovic
