1st Edition

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology Exploring Re-Embodiments

Edited By Ruth Thomas-Pellicer, Vito De Lucia, Sian Sullivan Copyright 2016
268 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-Embodiments is a preliminary contribution to the establishment of re-embodiments as a theoretical strand within legal and ecological theory, and philosophy. Re-embodiments are all those contemporary practices and processes that exceed the epistemic horizon of modernity. As such, they offer a plurality of alternative modes of theory and... Read more

Introduction: exploring re-embodiments Ruth Thomas-Pellicer and Vito De Lucia  PART 1: Beyond modernity 1. Beyond modernism and postmodernism: the narrative of the age of re-embodiments, Arran Gare 2. What is the age of re-embodiments? Or, the victorious assertion of loci standi over the barbarism of instrumenta movendi, Ruth Thomas-Pellicer 3. Reclaiming authenticity and ethics: a critique of eurocentric disembodiment and ecofeminist vision of re-embodiment, Madronna Holden  PART 2: The sacred dimension 4. Towards a deconstruction of leadership and cosmology: the re-embodiment of the sacred, Ali Young 5. From enlightenment to enchantment: changing the question, Patrick Curry 6. (Re)embodying which body? Philosophical, cross-cultural and personal reflections on corporeality, Sian Sullivan 7. The knowing body: eco-paganism as an embodying practice, Adrian Harris  PART 3: The legal dimension 8. Re-embodying Law: transversal ecology and the commons, Vito de Lucia 9. Graffiti artists and guerrilla gardeners: challenging our understandings of Property Law, Sue Farran 10. Autonomous legal persons and interconnected ecosystems: an 'Ecological' Self towards the age of re-embodiment, Alessandro Pelizzon and Gabrielle O’Shannessy 11. Beyond legal facts and discourses: towards a social-ecological production of the legal, Margherita Pieraccini  Index

Biography

Ruth Thomas-Pellicer is an independent scholar based in Catalonia, Spain.

Vito De Lucia is a Research Fellow in K. G. Jebsen Centre for Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT – Arctic University of Norway.

Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University, UK.