Erin Fitz‐henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 120586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Fitz‐henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitz‐henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From just transitions to reparative transformations
The ‘rights of nature’ in an age of white supremacy
The past 10 years have witnessed a flourishing of interdisciplinary research across the social sciences that aims to better theorize the relationships between structural racism and the deepening ecological crisis. In this article, I consider how grassroots lawyers and community activists for the ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) in the United States are transforming their discourses, legal tactics, and pedagogical strategies in the face of a national cont…
Multi-species justice: A View From the Rights of Nature Movement
The multi-species turn is generating significant new opportunities for rethinking theories of justice. However, these efforts to think beyond anthropocentric approaches to justice often sit uneasily alongside the concerns of more human-centered social justice movements. Closely engaging a recent paper that outlines a research agenda for this emerging field, I argue that to take seriously the question of how to build counter-hegemonic coalitions t…
Distribution without representation? Beyond the rights of nature in the southern Ecuadorian highlands
Despite the fact that Ecuador has arguably the most biocentric constitution in the world, deepening national investment in extractive development projects has left communities on the frontlines of these projects desperate for greater participation in decision-making processes currently monopolized by centralized ministries. The result has been a flourishing over the past two years of sub-national judicial and non-judicial challenges to strategic …
Conjuring the past: Slow violence and the temporalities of environmental rights tribunals
Challenging Corporate “Personhood: Energy Companies and the “Rights” of Non‐Humans
Since the early 2000s, the idea of “rights” for nature has gained increasing traction among environmental activists throughout the Americas. Drawing on a series of recent legal cases in the state of Pennsylvania, this article tracks the efforts of a U.S.‐based nongovernmental organization to use such rights in ongoing struggles against energy companies involved in natural gas extraction. The central argument is that, despite their considerable ph…
Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia
In line with a growing body of critical scholarship on the limitations, inconsistencies, and outright failures of Rafael Correa’s Revolucion Ciudadana (Citizen’s Revolution) in Ecuador, this captiv
Multiple Temporalities and the Nonhuman Other
In this article I pose a series of questions about the relationships between the temporal rhythms of late capitalism and the flourishing of those relational “onto-epistemologies” so celebrated by recent theorists of the ontological turn. Bringing together recent research in political and environmental anthropology influenced by the ontological turn and the temporal insights of Michel Serres, one of the most neglected forefathers of posthumanism i…
The Scales of Occupation: Becoming Regional in an International Sense
I met Carolina Hurtado just once. She is a radio journalist in her mid-thirties and the aunt of a 14-year-old girl who died on a caravan to Quito in 2001, en route to one of the earliest Manta-led demonstrations in defense of the forward operating location. We met in Manta at dusk one evening in early June 2007 on a bench just outside Ecuador’s ubiquitous supermarket chain Supermaxi , where Colombian children sell bootleg movies for a dollar a pi…
Greening the Petrochemical State: Between Energy Sovereignty and Sumak Kawsay in Coastal Ecuador
A fines de 2007, Hugo Chávez se reunió con Rafael Correa en la costa occidental de Ecuador para iniciar oficialmente la construcción de lo que se prevé sea uno de los mayores complejos petroquímicos en Sur América: La Refinería del Pacifico (RDP). Para los partidarios, la refinería garantiza al Ecuador soberanía energética, mientras que para los opositores es una violación fundamental de los principios ambientales básicos establecidos en la const…
Decolonizing personhood
This chapter explores ideas about the rights of nature are being understood, ignored, contested, and reshaped on the ground in Ecuador today as the country undergoes what leftist-populist President Rafael Correa calls, a citizens revolution. In the dusty inland city of Monetarist in Ecuador's westernmost coastal province, the Constituent Assembly convened by newly-elected leftist president, Rafael Correa, approved the most far-reaching draft cons…
US Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing: An Ethnography of an Air Force Base in Ecuador
1. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases?: A Brief History of Empire 2. But There's No American Base Here!: Becoming Foreign in a Domestic Sense 3. The Scales of Opposition: Becoming Regional in an International Sense 4. Obligatory Charities, Generous Obligations: Becoming Civilian in a Military Sense 5. The Return of the City-State?: Becoming Autonomous in a Sovereign Sense 6. Becoming Colombian in an Ecuadorian Sense
The Natural Contract: From Lévi‐Strauss to the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court
In 2008, the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly became the first juridical body in the world to legalize what Michel Serres might have called a ‘natural contract.’ With the assistance of the U.S.‐based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, representatives at the Assembly in July of 2008 re‐wrote their 1998 constitution to include a landmark series of articles delineating the rights of nature — a notion long familiar to Indigenous communities i…
Ownership and Appropriation
People who write about customary land in Papua New Guinea commonly make the observation that it accounts for ninety-seven per cent of the country's surface area. If they are right, then the 'bare facts' of land tenure have not changed since Independence in 1975. In fact they are wrong, but the appearance of a static division of space continually motivates a debate about what (if anything) should be done about the 'mobilization' of customary land …
Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador
The Experiential Basis of SubjectivityHow Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation
This chapter centers on Western ethical discourse, which assumes the existence of a unified human nature that is neurologically connected and historically unchanging. It introduces the term human conditions, which describes the inherent malleability of lived experience as it shapes and is shaped by macrolevel economic, social, and political processes. The chapter also tries to analyze the large-scale processes of market logic, global rationalitie…
Multi-species justice: A View From the Rights of Nature Movement
The multi-species turn is generating significant new opportunities for rethinking theories of justice. However, these efforts to think beyond anthropocentric approaches to justice often sit uneasily alongside the concerns of more human-centered social justice movements. Closely engaging a recent paper that outlines a research agenda for this emerging field, I argue that to take seriously the question of how to build counter-hegemonic coalitions t…
Multiple Temporalities and the Nonhuman Other
In this article I pose a series of questions about the relationships between the temporal rhythms of late capitalism and the flourishing of those relational “onto-epistemologies” so celebrated by recent theorists of the ontological turn. Bringing together recent research in political and environmental anthropology influenced by the ontological turn and the temporal insights of Michel Serres, one of the most neglected forefathers of posthumanism i…
From just transitions to reparative transformations
Conjuring the past: Slow violence and the temporalities of environmental rights tribunals
Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador
Greening the Petrochemical State: Between Energy Sovereignty and Sumak Kawsay in Coastal Ecuador
A fines de 2007, Hugo Chávez se reunió con Rafael Correa en la costa occidental de Ecuador para iniciar oficialmente la construcción de lo que se prevé sea uno de los mayores complejos petroquímicos en Sur América: La Refinería del Pacifico (RDP). Para los partidarios, la refinería garantiza al Ecuador soberanía energética, mientras que para los opositores es una violación fundamental de los principios ambientales básicos establecidos en la const…
Distribution without representation? Beyond the rights of nature in the southern Ecuadorian highlands
Despite the fact that Ecuador has arguably the most biocentric constitution in the world, deepening national investment in extractive development projects has left communities on the frontlines of these projects desperate for greater participation in decision-making processes currently monopolized by centralized ministries. The result has been a flourishing over the past two years of sub-national judicial and non-judicial challenges to strategic …
The Experiential Basis of SubjectivityHow Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation
This chapter centers on Western ethical discourse, which assumes the existence of a unified human nature that is neurologically connected and historically unchanging. It introduces the term human conditions, which describes the inherent malleability of lived experience as it shapes and is shaped by macrolevel economic, social, and political processes. The chapter also tries to analyze the large-scale processes of market logic, global rationalitie…
Distant allies, proximate enemies: Rethinking the scales of the antibase movement in Ecuador
The Natural Contract: From Lévi‐Strauss to the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court
In 2008, the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly became the first juridical body in the world to legalize what Michel Serres might have called a ‘natural contract.’ With the assistance of the U.S.‐based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, representatives at the Assembly in July of 2008 re‐wrote their 1998 constitution to include a landmark series of articles delineating the rights of nature — a notion long familiar to Indigenous communities i…
Ownership and Appropriation
People who write about customary land in Papua New Guinea commonly make the observation that it accounts for ninety-seven per cent of the country's surface area. If they are right, then the 'bare facts' of land tenure have not changed since Independence in 1975. In fact they are wrong, but the appearance of a static division of space continually motivates a debate about what (if anything) should be done about the 'mobilization' of customary land …
Decolonizing personhood
This chapter explores ideas about the rights of nature are being understood, ignored, contested, and reshaped on the ground in Ecuador today as the country undergoes what leftist-populist President Rafael Correa calls, a citizens revolution. In the dusty inland city of Monetarist in Ecuador's westernmost coastal province, the Constituent Assembly convened by newly-elected leftist president, Rafael Correa, approved the most far-reaching draft cons…
US Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing: An Ethnography of an Air Force Base in Ecuador
1. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases?: A Brief History of Empire 2. But There's No American Base Here!: Becoming Foreign in a Domestic Sense 3. The Scales of Opposition: Becoming Regional in an International Sense 4. Obligatory Charities, Generous Obligations: Becoming Civilian in a Military Sense 5. The Return of the City-State?: Becoming Autonomous in a Sovereign Sense 6. Becoming Colombian in an Ecuadorian Sense
The Scales of Occupation: Becoming Regional in an International Sense
I met Carolina Hurtado just once. She is a radio journalist in her mid-thirties and the aunt of a 14-year-old girl who died on a caravan to Quito in 2001, en route to one of the earliest Manta-led demonstrations in defense of the forward operating location. We met in Manta at dusk one evening in early June 2007 on a bench just outside Ecuador’s ubiquitous supermarket chain Supermaxi , where Colombian children sell bootleg movies for a dollar a pi…
Greening the Petrochemical State: Between Energy Sovereignty and Sumak Kawsay in Coastal Ecuador
A fines de 2007, Hugo Chávez se reunió con Rafael Correa en la costa occidental de Ecuador para iniciar oficialmente la construcción de lo que se prevé sea uno de los mayores complejos petroquímicos en Sur América: La Refinería del Pacifico (RDP). Para los partidarios, la refinería garantiza al Ecuador soberanía energética, mientras que para los opositores es una violación fundamental de los principios ambientales básicos establecidos en la const…
Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia
In line with a growing body of critical scholarship on the limitations, inconsistencies, and outright failures of Rafael Correa’s Revolucion Ciudadana (Citizen’s Revolution) in Ecuador, this captiv
Multiple Temporalities and the Nonhuman Other
In this article I pose a series of questions about the relationships between the temporal rhythms of late capitalism and the flourishing of those relational “onto-epistemologies” so celebrated by recent theorists of the ontological turn. Bringing together recent research in political and environmental anthropology influenced by the ontological turn and the temporal insights of Michel Serres, one of the most neglected forefathers of posthumanism i…
Challenging Corporate “Personhood: Energy Companies and the “Rights” of Non‐Humans
Since the early 2000s, the idea of “rights” for nature has gained increasing traction among environmental activists throughout the Americas. Drawing on a series of recent legal cases in the state of Pennsylvania, this article tracks the efforts of a U.S.‐based nongovernmental organization to use such rights in ongoing struggles against energy companies involved in natural gas extraction. The central argument is that, despite their considerable ph…
Conjuring the past: Slow violence and the temporalities of environmental rights tribunals
Distribution without representation? Beyond the rights of nature in the southern Ecuadorian highlands
Despite the fact that Ecuador has arguably the most biocentric constitution in the world, deepening national investment in extractive development projects has left communities on the frontlines of these projects desperate for greater participation in decision-making processes currently monopolized by centralized ministries. The result has been a flourishing over the past two years of sub-national judicial and non-judicial challenges to strategic …
Multi-species justice: A View From the Rights of Nature Movement
The multi-species turn is generating significant new opportunities for rethinking theories of justice. However, these efforts to think beyond anthropocentric approaches to justice often sit uneasily alongside the concerns of more human-centered social justice movements. Closely engaging a recent paper that outlines a research agenda for this emerging field, I argue that to take seriously the question of how to build counter-hegemonic coalitions t…
The ‘rights of nature’ in an age of white supremacy
The past 10 years have witnessed a flourishing of interdisciplinary research across the social sciences that aims to better theorize the relationships between structural racism and the deepening ecological crisis. In this article, I consider how grassroots lawyers and community activists for the ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) in the United States are transforming their discourses, legal tactics, and pedagogical strategies in the face of a national cont…
From just transitions to reparative transformations
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Mining and Resource Management (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)