Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon

ISBN-13: 9781032393674 / Twarda / 2024 / 296 str.

Ivan Dario Vargas Roncancio

Opis

Extending law beyond the human, the book examines the conceptual openings, methodological challenges, and ethical conundrums of law in a time of socio-ecological transition.

Spis treści

Introduction: Law and the Pluriverse Part I - Towards A Law Otherwise: A Legal Herbarium 1. Yoco (Paullinia yoco): Cooling Down the Mind and Learning Law where the Law is not Named as such Interlude 1: The Elder and the Seed. 2. Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): Moving Words Across Worlds and Entangled Temporalities in Amazonia Interlude 2: Tobacco as People. 3. Coca Leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): Territories in Motion and Learning Law with the Amazonian “Mambe.” Interlude 3: On Entanglements to Encounters: An attempt at “controlled speculation” 4. The Making of an Ethnobotanical Research Agreement in Southern Colombia: Yajé, Invisible People, and the Law of the Place Part II - On the Rights of Nature: Limits, Possibilities and Challenges in Neo-extractivist Worlds 5. Sowing Concepts: Towards a Post-humanist Understanding of the Encounter of Beings (A Literature Review) 6. Plants and the Law: Vegetal Ontologies and the Rights of Nature. A Perspective from Latin America 7. Conjuring Sentient Beings and Relations in the Law. Rights of Nature and a Comparative Praxis of Legal Cosmologies in Latin America 8. Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Personhood 9. Concluding, Opening

O autorze

Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio is Assistant Professor on the Law & Society Program in the Department of Social Sciences at York University, Canada; and researcher with the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA) and the Leadership for the Ecozoic program (L4E), McGill University.