Search Results for Rights of Nature

... for the steady stream of new social programs and economic policies. In December 2010, the first and shorter version of the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth (Law 071) was presented to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, portions of which are excerpted here. In October 2012, a much-altered and longer version...

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... The new arenas of contestation that Mumbai’s water infrastructures animate reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai as a world-class city. These dynamics, described as “pipe politics,” gesture instead toward the highly contested futures of the actually existing...

... billions trying to colonize space, we should use our resources to mitigate and adapt to climate change. To preserve biodiversity we need to promote the Rights of Nature. climate refugees climate havens green cities biosphere insect apocalypse Rights of Nature migration ...

... on a concept of legal vigilance. These inquiries are used to demonstrate the inherently collective and political nature of sleep, a kind of “flesh” to which, individually, we have little conscious access but which has the potential to reorient legal rights and political values. This chapter mobilizes...

... This monographic essay highlights Kerry James Marshall’s signature interest in archival imagery from the 1960s civil rights era, evoking a quest for social justice that haunts contemporary life because it remains unfulfilled. With attention to painterly devices that interrupt the picture plane...

... The popularization of feminist and LGBTQ+ struggles have been accompanied by a growing resistance to the incorporation of the concept of gender. In conservative settings, gender ideology refers to the idea that gender is an ideological farce that denies natural or divine divisions between...

... in art history, and in terms of Native American political sovereignty and land rights, as well as indigenous conceptions of nationhood in relation to the natural environment. This chapter also sketches a history of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, conflicts with non-Native settlers and the U.S. military...

... This chapter queries Congolese relationships with soil, subsoil, and the natural world more generally. In Congo the past 250 years have been characterized by the prying of Congolese from their land. First, there were the Arab slavers; then, during the imperial and colonial eras, land...

... of immediacy, or immediations, aim to humanize disenfranchised subjects, they ultimately reinforce their status as other. The chapter examines how the formal conventions of participatory documentary are implicated in naturalizing these exclusions. The author aims to realize the radical ethical potential...

... by decolonization and creation of the United Nations. It also examines the fraught link between humanitarian aid and the protection of human rights, from the colonial era to the early 2000s. Finally, the conclusion examines ongoing problems of illegal immigration in Ngara district, including forced deportation...

... This chapter argues that while the Arctic has historically remained isolated from international politics and has been characterized instead as peripheral territory, contemporary politics have brought the Arctic into contestation as non-Arctic players increasingly pursue Arctic natural resources...

... The chapter sets the context for the discussion of human rights in the chapters that follow via a recalibration of how we understand violence in relation to law. Colombia is an extreme example of how the violence of armed repression intersects with less visible violence inherent to the ordinary...

... This chapter analyzes the competing racial geographies of the United States and Mexico in the newly annexed territory. Mexican Americans challenged Jim Crow segregation in the Southwest through naturalization, segregation, and discrimination cases brought between 1897 and 1954. The mestizo...

... This chapter explores the production and cultivation of the rhetoric of aylaserutyun (sexual perversion). The author draws on a 2013 sex panic about gender and perverse futures as imagined and projected onto the figure of the homosexual. Through interviews with journalists, right-wing...