Posthuman international law and the rights of nature

IF 3 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.4337/jhre.2021.00.04

E. Jones

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Abstract

Both posthuman theory and the rights of nature (RoN) movement have the potential to challenge the anthropocentrism of international environmental law (IEL). Scholars have begun to document the transformative shifts that could occur through the application of posthuman legal theory to IEL, but these theories have yet to be applied to law in practice. On the other hand, RoN have been applied in domestic law but hardly in international law, while the question of what RoN includes and excludes remains contested. This article brings posthuman theory and RoN together, reflecting on how posthuman legal theory can contribute to the framing of RoN, with a focus on challenging the anthropocentrism of IEL. The article argues, first, that the next step for posthuman legal theory will be its application to existing law. Noting convergences between posthuman legal theory and the rights of nature (RoN), the article contends that those seeking to apply posthuman legal theory might find some interesting alliances by turning to RoN. Second, it is argued that using posthuman theory to frame RoN could help to ensure that RoN live up to their transformative potential.

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后人类国际法与自然权利

后人类理论和自然权利运动都有可能挑战国际环境法中的人类中心主义。学者们已经开始记录通过将后人类法律理论应用于IEL可能发生的变革，但这些理论尚未在实践中应用于法律。另一方面，RoN在国内法中适用，但在国际法中几乎没有，而RoN包括和排除什么的问题仍然存在争议。本文将后人类理论和RoN结合在一起，反思后人类法律理论如何有助于RoN的构建，重点是挑战IEL的人类中心主义。文章认为，首先，后人类法律理论的下一步将是将其应用于现有法律。注意到后人类法律理论与自然权利（RoN）之间的趋同，文章认为，那些寻求应用后人类法律学说的人可能会通过求助于RoN找到一些有趣的联盟。其次，有人认为，使用后人类理论来构建RoN有助于确保RoN发挥其变革潜力。

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Journal of Human Rights and the Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The relationship between human rights and the environment is fascinating, uneasy and increasingly urgent. This international journal provides a strategic academic forum for an extended interdisciplinary and multi-layered conversation that explores emergent possibilities, existing tensions, and multiple implications of entanglements between human and non-human forms of liveliness. We invite critical engagements on these themes, especially as refracted through human rights and environmental law, politics, policy-making and community level activisms.