Decolonizing Legal Subjects in Climate Chaos

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

South Atlantic Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1215/00382876-9663660

A. Harris

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Abstract

The path of decolonization has always been difficult to walk, mazed as it is with contradictions and double binds, but the existential threat of climate change adds new urgency. This essay suggests that decolonial legal practice be organized around, not the struggle for new rights, but the struggle to imagine new legal subjects. Two types of legal-ontological work are described: rethinking the legal subjecthood of nonhuman entities, and rethinking the legal subjecthood of human collectivities. Although law schools have not yet recognized the urgency of this work, movements organized around “justice” are already leading the way.

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气候混乱中的非殖民化法律主体

非殖民化的道路一直很难走，充满矛盾和双重束缚，但气候变化的生存威胁增加了新的紧迫性。本文认为，非殖民化的法律实践不是围绕争取新权利的斗争，而是围绕想象新的法律主体的斗争。本文描述了两种类型的法律本体论工作:对非人类实体的法律主体性的重新思考和对人类集体的法律主体性的重新思考。虽然法学院还没有认识到这项工作的紧迫性，但围绕“正义”组织起来的运动已经走在了前面。

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