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A compelling proposal for new international law and institutions to address the planetary crisis that improves biodiversity protection, supports Indigenous peoples, and prevents catastrophic climate change. In Burke and Fishel argue that the international rule of law enacts a sovereign ban of nature that appropriates nonhuman lives for profit and use while denying them political and legal standing. We fail because we rely on the very institutions, worldviews, and systems that generated the crisis to solve it. The authors reconsider political power, agency, scale, and democracy in the Anthropocene and assert a biospheric ethic that values the entangled planetary structure of matter, energy, and life. Further, they argue for more-than-human beings to be represented in an ecological democracy that flows across borders. In short, they imagine a polity whose fundamental purpose is to protect planetary ecosystems and nurture interlocking systems of social and ecological justice.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1 The Sovereign Ban of Nature
Politics, Law, and Ecology after the Holocene
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
2 The Human Body Politic
State, Territory, and Nonhuman
3 Power After Power
Ecology, Thing-Systems, and Responsibility
4 Another Political Animal
Nonhuman Presence and Ecological Democracy
POWER, ECOLOGY, AND LAW
5 Blue Screen Biosphere
The Absent Presence of Biodiversity in International Law
6 Posthuman Political Scale
Governing Climate Between Biome and Planet
7 Towards a Multispecies Contract
Human and Ecological Justice
CONCLUSION
8 The Ecology Politic
A Polity for the Earth
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Anthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Australia. His books include
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence,
Uranium, and
Institutionalizing Multispecies Justice.
Stefanie Fishel is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is the author of
The Microbial State, Environmentalism after Humanism, and
Poe and the Microbiome.
