54 research outputs found
Anti-discrimination law exemptions donât strike the right balance between rights and freedoms
Should Nature Have Rights?:Orthodoxy and Innovation
Confronted by a stream of dire reports of present and pending ecologicaldestruction, it is no wonder that many of us seek out developments that have thepotential to lead us down a different path. One such development is the growingnumber of constitutions, laws, and judicial decisions that have recognized that natural entitiesârivers, glaciers, mountains (or Nature as a whole)âhave rights or legal personality. These developments include constitutional recognition of Nature in Ecuador and Bolivia, river personhood judgments in Colombia, India, and Bangladesh, and treaty-based legislative recognition of a range of natural entities, including rivers, mountains, and a former national park, in Aotearoa New Zealand, to name a few of the most prominent. While sometimes described as a trend, or even a ârights of nature movement,â the details of these developments, remarkable for their diversity and place based specificity, often get lost in the narrative created by both ârights of natureâ proponents and simplistic critics.Mihnea TÄnÄsescu explores the diverse histories, meanings, and examples of rights of nature (âRoNâ) developments and adopts a critical and reflective approach that foregrounds politics, arguing that âthe question of who has the power to represent a nature with rights is central to understanding their potential.â Nonetheless, law âmatters a lot!â (TÄnÄsescu 2022, 17)
Lactivism:how feminists and fundamentalists, hippies and yuppies, and physicians and politicians made breastfeeding big business and bad policy [Book Review]
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