Dans le cadre des séminaires de recherche du laboratoire, le LACS a le plaisir d'accueillir Madame Annette Mehlhorn de la Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
All over the world cases multiply where other-than-human entities have been granted legal personality; „Rights of Nature“ have been established in a number of different legal documents and processes, are discussed, elaborated and advocated for in academic debates and activist proposals. But what does it mean when a river or a forest is „becoming“ a legal subject? And why do so many of us seem to care deeply about this legal development? Drawing on debates in Anthropology and Law, I want to ask what Rights of Nature can teach us about the idea of the (legal) person, the potential to re-formulate it and about its role in environmental struggles. Ultimately, this leads me to the question what it means when hope for an end of the massive exploitation and subjugation of humans and nature is articulated through the continued re-drawing of the line demarcating legal personhood.
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