1st Edition
Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon The Lawness of Life
List of tables ix
Preface x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: law and the pluriverse 1
PART I
Law and its ontological itineraries: a legal herbarium 29
1 Yoco (Paullinia Yoco): cooling down the mind and learning law where the law is not named as such 31
Intertext 1 The elder and the seed 62
2 Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): moving words across worlds and entangled temporalities in Amazonia 64
Intertext 2 Tobacco as people 82
3 Coca leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): territories in motion and learning law with the Amazonian “mambe” 85
Intertext 3 On entanglements and encounters: an attempt at controlled speculation 109
4 The making of an ethnobotanical research agreement in Southern Colombia: Yagé, invisible people and the law of the place 114
PART II
On the rights of nature: limits, possibilities and challenges in neo-extractivist worlds 143
5 Sowing concepts: towards a post-humanist understanding of the encounter of beings 145
6 Plants and the law: vegetal ontologies and the rights of nature 185
7 Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies 199
8 Forest on trial: towards a relational theory of legal personhood 216
9 Concluding, opening 231
Index 248
Biography
Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio is Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University.
