Asanka Edirisinghe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3492103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asanka Edirisinghe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asanka |
| FAMILY NAME | Edirisinghe |
| SIGNATURE | EDIRISINGHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1359-662X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Legal Personhood and Rights of Nature
Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Vedda community, also known as Vanniyalaththo, has profound relationships with nature that are not recognized by the country’s colonial history and, subsequently, its Western-influenced legal framework. This article explores how the gap between relational Vedda laws and state-based law in Sri Lanka can be bridged. It suggests that the emerging paradigms of legal personhood and Rights of Nature, which acknowledge the more-th…
The intersection of Sinhalese Buddhist worldviews and the legal personhood and rights of rivers
Legal personhood and the rights of nature
The concept of relationality embraces the interconnectedness between what are seen as separate categories (e.g. human and non-human), and emplaces the human being within a wider network of related beings. Consequently, it encourages the protection of nature for the more-than-instrumental values that they hold. The relationship between the Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka and the natural environment serves as a compelling illustration of how relat…
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Legal Personhood and Rights of Nature
Sri Lanka’s Indigenous Vedda community, also known as Vanniyalaththo, has profound relationships with nature that are not recognized by the country’s colonial history and, subsequently, its Western-influenced legal framework. This article explores how the gap between relational Vedda laws and state-based law in Sri Lanka can be bridged. It suggests that the emerging paradigms of legal personhood and Rights of Nature, which acknowledge the more-th…
The intersection of Sinhalese Buddhist worldviews and the legal personhood and rights of rivers
Legal personhood and the rights of nature
The concept of relationality embraces the interconnectedness between what are seen as separate categories (e.g. human and non-human), and emplaces the human being within a wider network of related beings. Consequently, it encourages the protection of nature for the more-than-instrumental values that they hold. The relationship between the Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka and the natural environment serves as a compelling illustration of how relat…
Personhood (3 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Environmental law and policy (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Legal pluralism (2 works) · Anthropocentrism (1 work) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)