Response-abilities of care in more-than-human worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7424820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie-Catherine Petersmann (0000-0001-5665-0211, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 0 |
| Pages | 102-124 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-7188 • E-ISSN: 1759-7196 |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4337/jhre.2021.00.05 |
| OpenAlex | W4205663349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article rethinks the doctrines of responsibility and protection in international environmental law in light of notions of response-abilities and care in more-than-human worlds. Inspired by the intersecting strands of new materialist, relational and posthuman literatures, and informed by critiques of them by decolonial, indigenous and black scholars, the analysis works with onto-epistemologies of becoming that posit an inseparability of being, knowing and acting with(in) the Anthropocene/s. Through the notion of response-abilities of care, the article reconfigures how the destructive and the restorative relations between humans and nonhumans could be construed beyond a narrow understanding of state sovereignty, territorial jurisdiction, liberal human-centred notions of individuated agency and the strict causal nexus between victim and perpetrator. The analysis concludes by reflecting on how law could remain open to emergent, unfolding and contingent potentialities of entangled human-nonhuman relations, and questions law’s capacity to recognize and respond to the agency and alterity of nonhumans. These configurations exceed the schema of responsibility and protection that organizes even international environmental law’s most progressive theories and practices, such as granting ‘rights to nature
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On phantom publics, clusters, and collectives
Making kin with more-than-human rights
Drug law is a multispecies concern
Earth system law
Seeking ‘Systems’ in Earth System Law
Futurism
Virtual Borders
Good Science from Below
Immanent obligations of response
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |