Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature Davies Margaret
Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature Davies Margaret This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at…
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Ecolaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature Davies Margaret
This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries.
Law is part of the material 'everything' that is connected to everything else. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it is after all possible to think of law as 'natural' - as embedded in and emergent from a normative biophysical