Anna Grear
Biographic Data
| ID | 2817618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Grear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Grear |
| SIGNATURE | GREAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2993-1370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
The Anthropocene as abstract machine – a conversation
Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Towards the end of 2019 Jane Bennett and William E Connolly visited Cardiff University as keynote speakers for the speaker series, ‘Imagining the Eco-Social: New Materialist Reflections for the Anthropocene’. Organized by Anna Grear, the series sought to push the boundaries of the social into more complex material engagements and brought law and justice-based questions haunting the so-called Anthropocene into conversation with new materialist and…
Climate change, violence, exclusion and law
Quiet revolutions from necessary evolutions? Four contemporary normative developments
Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human
Environmental Justice
The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins
Legal Imaginaries and the Anthropocene: Of’ and ‘For
This reflection contrasts the dominant imaginary underlying ‘law of the Anthropocene’ with an imaginary reaching towards ‘law/s for the Anthropocene’. It does so primarily by contrasting two imaginaries of human embodiment—law’s existing imaginary of quasi-disembodiment and an alternative imaginary of embodiment as co-woven with the lively incipiencies and tendencies of matter. It draws on ‘transcorporeality’ and ‘sympoiesis’ as inspiration for ‘…
Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: Law, colonialities and the global order
Set against the colonial and neo-colonial unevenness of the globalized neoliberal order, this article offers a critical reading of legal personhood and jurisdiction as mechanisms of privilege and predation. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are, we suggest, the ultimate insider construct for the neoliberal capitalist-techno order. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of corporeal human beings on the move as the marginalized products of that same order (…
The Great Awakening
International Law, Social Change and Resistance: A Conversation Between Professor Anna Grear (Cardiff) and Professorial Fellow Dianne Otto (Melbourne)
Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts toward a New Juridical Ontology
The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights anthropocentrism is radically attenuated and reflects persistent patterns of intra- and interspecies injustice and binary subject-object relations inapt for twenty-first-century crises and posthuman complexities. This article explores the possibility of reimagining the "human" of human rights in the light of anti- and post-Cartesian analyses drawing-in particular-upon …
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change: A new legal tool for global policy change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
Vulnerability: Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics
Martha Albertson Fineman’s earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the ‘autonomous’ subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her ‘vulnerability thesis’ represents the evolution of that earlier work and situates human vulnerability as a critical heuristic for exploring alternative legal and political foundations. This bo…
Penelope Simons and Audrey Macklin, The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage
Anyone concerned with questions of human and environmental justice in the twenty-first century will doubtlessly be aware of the immensely problematic accountability gap concerning the rights-violating and environmentally destructive activities of transnational corporations (TNCs), especially in the countries of the Global South. Certain cases stand out among a litany of instances as intensely sorrowful reminders of the inhumanity and corruption t…
Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on ‘Anthropocentric’ Law and Anthropocene ‘Humanity’
The Betrayal of Human Rights and the Urgency of Universal Corporate Accountability: Reflections on a Post-Kiobel Lawscape
The search for mandatory international human rights law accountability for transnational corporations has long been one of the most challenging struggles facing human rights advocates and the victims of powerful rights-violating corporate actors alike. Reflecting on the extent to which the US case of Kiobel makes a difference in the light of the ‘closing of the door’ on a much-favoured activist litigation strategy, the authors argue that the neo-…
Towards ‘climate justice’? A critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice: Warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy
The recent high-level emergence of ‘climate justice’ in the normative and policy discourse addressing the social and legal aspects of climate change is welcome. However, certain dangers of co-option face the concept as it gains institutional traction. Drawing on a critical theoretical reading of the patterns of climate injustice and their relationship with liberal legal subjectivity (and with the related themes of the politics of dis/embodiment, …
Vulnerability, Advanced Global Capitalization and Co-Symptomatic Injustice: Locating the Vulnerable Subject
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
Human rights, property and the search for ‘worlds other’
While some accounts of rights and property paradigms see property as an inherent incident of a colonizing form of human rights law and discourse, others draw out the contradictions between them, suggesting that human rights and property have opposing impulses towards inclusion and exclusion respectively. While not rejecting the insights of either of these positions, the author argues that a fundamental ambivalence lies at the heart of human right…
Should trees have standing: 40 Years On
article, 'Should Trees Have Standing?', the idea immediately struck an exciting chord. The contributions in this special edition more than amply fulfil the rich promise of that initial suggestion. Each of the contributors has generously provided a philosophically rich and thoughtful engagement with Stone's iconic work, and he, in turn, has provided a typically intellectually engagedand engagingresponse
The vulnerable living order: Human rights and the environment in a critical and philosophical perspective
One of the problems encountered in bringing the discourses of human rights and environment together concerns the philosophical foundations lying beneath certain closures of liberal (legal) theory. Linking a destructive mind/body split to the destructive relationship between ‘humanity’ and the ‘environment’, the author argues that a critical analysis of legal anthropomorphism reveals a fundamental failure of representation at its heart, in so far …
Reflections on biodiversity and food supply: From the nano to the macro-political
TW Lukes once observed that ‘[tt]he discursive script of environmentality embedded in terms such as ecology or environment is rarely articulated by scientists or technical analysts. Yet there are politics here’. 1 While many readers of this edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment would not necessarily find themselves in agreement with a committed Foucauldian reading of the complex relationships characterising the domain of ‘bio…
Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on ‘Anthropocentric’ Law and Anthropocene ‘Humanity’
Legal Imaginaries and the Anthropocene: Of’ and ‘For
This reflection contrasts the dominant imaginary underlying ‘law of the Anthropocene’ with an imaginary reaching towards ‘law/s for the Anthropocene’. It does so primarily by contrasting two imaginaries of human embodiment—law’s existing imaginary of quasi-disembodiment and an alternative imaginary of embodiment as co-woven with the lively incipiencies and tendencies of matter. It draws on ‘transcorporeality’ and ‘sympoiesis’ as inspiration for ‘…
The vulnerable living order: Human rights and the environment in a critical and philosophical perspective
One of the problems encountered in bringing the discourses of human rights and environment together concerns the philosophical foundations lying beneath certain closures of liberal (legal) theory. Linking a destructive mind/body split to the destructive relationship between ‘humanity’ and the ‘environment’, the author argues that a critical analysis of legal anthropomorphism reveals a fundamental failure of representation at its heart, in so far …
Human Rights – Human Bodies? Some Reflections on Corporate Human Rights Distortion,The Legal Subject, Embodiment and Human Rights Theory
Towards ‘climate justice’? A critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice: Warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy
The recent high-level emergence of ‘climate justice’ in the normative and policy discourse addressing the social and legal aspects of climate change is welcome. However, certain dangers of co-option face the concept as it gains institutional traction. Drawing on a critical theoretical reading of the patterns of climate injustice and their relationship with liberal legal subjectivity (and with the related themes of the politics of dis/embodiment, …
Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: Law, colonialities and the global order
Set against the colonial and neo-colonial unevenness of the globalized neoliberal order, this article offers a critical reading of legal personhood and jurisdiction as mechanisms of privilege and predation. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are, we suggest, the ultimate insider construct for the neoliberal capitalist-techno order. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of corporeal human beings on the move as the marginalized products of that same order (…
Challenging Corporate 'Humanity: Legal Disembodiment, Embodiment and Human Rights
This article interrogates the corporate use of human rights discourse. It does so in light of concern surrounding corporate distortion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) paradigm, 1 and in light of the fact that corporations can claim shelter under human rights documents, particularly—as recently discussed by Emberland 2 —the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The author offers a critical explora…
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change: A new legal tool for global policy change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
Human rights, property and the search for ‘worlds other’
While some accounts of rights and property paradigms see property as an inherent incident of a colonizing form of human rights law and discourse, others draw out the contradictions between them, suggesting that human rights and property have opposing impulses towards inclusion and exclusion respectively. While not rejecting the insights of either of these positions, the author argues that a fundamental ambivalence lies at the heart of human right…
The Betrayal of Human Rights and the Urgency of Universal Corporate Accountability: Reflections on a Post-Kiobel Lawscape
The search for mandatory international human rights law accountability for transnational corporations has long been one of the most challenging struggles facing human rights advocates and the victims of powerful rights-violating corporate actors alike. Reflecting on the extent to which the US case of Kiobel makes a difference in the light of the ‘closing of the door’ on a much-favoured activist litigation strategy, the authors argue that the neo-…
International Law, Social Change and Resistance: A Conversation Between Professor Anna Grear (Cardiff) and Professorial Fellow Dianne Otto (Melbourne)
Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts toward a New Juridical Ontology
The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights anthropocentrism is radically attenuated and reflects persistent patterns of intra- and interspecies injustice and binary subject-object relations inapt for twenty-first-century crises and posthuman complexities. This article explores the possibility of reimagining the "human" of human rights in the light of anti- and post-Cartesian analyses drawing-in particular-upon …
Theorising the Rainbow? The Puzzle of the Public-private Divide
Human Rights – Human Bodies? Some Reflections on Corporate Human Rights Distortion,The Legal Subject, Embodiment and Human Rights Theory
Challenging Corporate 'Humanity: Legal Disembodiment, Embodiment and Human Rights
This article interrogates the corporate use of human rights discourse. It does so in light of concern surrounding corporate distortion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) paradigm, 1 and in light of the fact that corporations can claim shelter under human rights documents, particularly—as recently discussed by Emberland 2 —the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The author offers a critical explora…
Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity
Against the backdrop of globalization and mounting evidence of the corporate subversion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights paradigm, Anna Grear interrogates the complex tendencies within law
The vulnerable living order: Human rights and the environment in a critical and philosophical perspective
One of the problems encountered in bringing the discourses of human rights and environment together concerns the philosophical foundations lying beneath certain closures of liberal (legal) theory. Linking a destructive mind/body split to the destructive relationship between ‘humanity’ and the ‘environment’, the author argues that a critical analysis of legal anthropomorphism reveals a fundamental failure of representation at its heart, in so far …
Reflections on biodiversity and food supply: From the nano to the macro-political
TW Lukes once observed that ‘[tt]he discursive script of environmentality embedded in terms such as ecology or environment is rarely articulated by scientists or technical analysts. Yet there are politics here’. 1 While many readers of this edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment would not necessarily find themselves in agreement with a committed Foucauldian reading of the complex relationships characterising the domain of ‘bio…
The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Human rights are considered one of the big ideas of the early twenty-first century. This book presents in an authoritative and readable form the variety of platforms on which human rights law is practiced today, reflecting also on the dynamic inter-relationships that exist between these various levels. The collection has a critical edge. The chapters engage with how human rights law has developed in its various subfields, what (if anything) has b…
Human rights, property and the search for ‘worlds other’
While some accounts of rights and property paradigms see property as an inherent incident of a colonizing form of human rights law and discourse, others draw out the contradictions between them, suggesting that human rights and property have opposing impulses towards inclusion and exclusion respectively. While not rejecting the insights of either of these positions, the author argues that a fundamental ambivalence lies at the heart of human right…
Should trees have standing: 40 Years On
article, 'Should Trees Have Standing?', the idea immediately struck an exciting chord. The contributions in this special edition more than amply fulfil the rich promise of that initial suggestion. Each of the contributors has generously provided a philosophically rich and thoughtful engagement with Stone's iconic work, and he, in turn, has provided a typically intellectually engagedand engagingresponse
Vulnerability, Advanced Global Capitalization and Co-Symptomatic Injustice: Locating the Vulnerable Subject
Towards ‘climate justice’? A critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice: Warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy
The recent high-level emergence of ‘climate justice’ in the normative and policy discourse addressing the social and legal aspects of climate change is welcome. However, certain dangers of co-option face the concept as it gains institutional traction. Drawing on a critical theoretical reading of the patterns of climate injustice and their relationship with liberal legal subjectivity (and with the related themes of the politics of dis/embodiment, …
Penelope Simons and Audrey Macklin, The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage
Anyone concerned with questions of human and environmental justice in the twenty-first century will doubtlessly be aware of the immensely problematic accountability gap concerning the rights-violating and environmentally destructive activities of transnational corporations (TNCs), especially in the countries of the Global South. Certain cases stand out among a litany of instances as intensely sorrowful reminders of the inhumanity and corruption t…
Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on ‘Anthropocentric’ Law and Anthropocene ‘Humanity’
The Betrayal of Human Rights and the Urgency of Universal Corporate Accountability: Reflections on a Post-Kiobel Lawscape
The search for mandatory international human rights law accountability for transnational corporations has long been one of the most challenging struggles facing human rights advocates and the victims of powerful rights-violating corporate actors alike. Reflecting on the extent to which the US case of Kiobel makes a difference in the light of the ‘closing of the door’ on a much-favoured activist litigation strategy, the authors argue that the neo-…
Vulnerability: Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics
Martha Albertson Fineman’s earlier work developed a theory of inevitable and derivative dependencies as a way of problematizing the core assumptions underlying the ‘autonomous’ subject of liberal law and politics in the context of US equality discourse. Her ‘vulnerability thesis’ represents the evolution of that earlier work and situates human vulnerability as a critical heuristic for exploring alternative legal and political foundations. This bo…
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change: A new legal tool for global policy change
The Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change responds to the profound crisis of human hierarchies now characterizing the climate crisis. The Declaration, initiated prior to the 2015 COP 21 meeting by scholars from the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), is one of a convergence of initiatives reflecting the need to understand human rights as intrinsically threatened by climate change. This article introd…
The Great Awakening
International Law, Social Change and Resistance: A Conversation Between Professor Anna Grear (Cardiff) and Professorial Fellow Dianne Otto (Melbourne)
Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts toward a New Juridical Ontology
The much-lamented anthropocentrism of human rights is misleading. Human rights anthropocentrism is radically attenuated and reflects persistent patterns of intra- and interspecies injustice and binary subject-object relations inapt for twenty-first-century crises and posthuman complexities. This article explores the possibility of reimagining the "human" of human rights in the light of anti- and post-Cartesian analyses drawing-in particular-upon …
Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: Law, colonialities and the global order
Set against the colonial and neo-colonial unevenness of the globalized neoliberal order, this article offers a critical reading of legal personhood and jurisdiction as mechanisms of privilege and predation. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are, we suggest, the ultimate insider construct for the neoliberal capitalist-techno order. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of corporeal human beings on the move as the marginalized products of that same order (…
Environmental Justice
The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins
Legal Imaginaries and the Anthropocene: Of’ and ‘For
This reflection contrasts the dominant imaginary underlying ‘law of the Anthropocene’ with an imaginary reaching towards ‘law/s for the Anthropocene’. It does so primarily by contrasting two imaginaries of human embodiment—law’s existing imaginary of quasi-disembodiment and an alternative imaginary of embodiment as co-woven with the lively incipiencies and tendencies of matter. It draws on ‘transcorporeality’ and ‘sympoiesis’ as inspiration for ‘…
Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human
Climate change, violence, exclusion and law
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