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This handbook explores, contextualizes and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.
List of contents
Unveiling the Anthropocentrism of International Law 1.
'One Vast Gasoline Station for Human Exploitation': Sovereignty as Anthropocentric Extraction
Mario Prost 2. The Anthropocentrism of Human Rights
Frédéric Mégret 3.
International Trade Law and the Commodification of the Living
Charlotte E. Blattner 4.
Anthropocentrism and International Environmental Law
Vito De Lucia 5.
The Law of the Sea's Fluid Anthropocentrism
Godwin E.K. Dzah 6.
Ordering Human-Other relationships: International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts in the Anthropocene
Matilda Arvidsson and Britta Sjöstedt Conceptualising the Anthropocentrism of International Law 7.
Anthropocentrism and Critical Approaches to International Law
Hélène Mayrand and Valérie Chevrier-Marineau 8.
International Law, Legal Anthropocentrism, and Facing the Planetary
Anna Grear 9.
Towards an Ecofeminist Critique of International Law?
Karen Morrow 10.
Indigenous Knowledge and International (Anthropocentric) Law: The Politics of Thinking from (and for) Another World
Roger Merino 11.
Earth Jurisprudence: Anthropocentrism and Neoliberal Rationality
Peter Burdon and Samuel Alexander 12.
Global Animal Law, Pain, and Death: An International Law for the Dominion
Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela Imagining a Non-Anthropocentric International Law 13.
What Would a Post-Anthropocentric Legal System Look Like?
Ugo Mattei and Michael W. Monterossi 14.
A Non-Anthropocentric Indigenous Research Methodology: The Anishinabe Waterdrum, Residential Schools, and Settler Colonialism
Valarie G. Waboose 15.
Non-Human Animals as Epistemic Subjects of International Law
Vincent Chapaux 16.
Grounding Ecocide, Humanity, and International Law
Tim Lindgren 17.
Formless Infinite: Law beyond the Anthropocene and the Earth System
Elena Cirkovic
About the author
Vincent Chapaux is the Research Manager of the Maison des Sciences Humaines of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Frédéric Mégret is Full Professor and Dawson Scholar, as well as the co-Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada.
Usha Natarajan is Edward W Said Fellow at Columbia University, USA and International Schulich Law Visiting Scholar at Dalhousie University, Canada.
