1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene
The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.
The Anthropocene is a “crisis of the earth system.” This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ecological law and politics, this handbook pursues a range of approaches to the scientific fact of anthropocentrism, with contributions from lawyers, philosophers, geographers, and environmental and political scientists. Rather than adopting a hubristic normativity, the contributors engage methods, concepts, and legal instruments in a way that underscores the importance of humility and an expansive ethical worldview. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars and future leaders in the field. Rather than upholding orthodoxy, the handbook also problematizes received wisdom and is grounded in the conviction that the ideas we have inherited from the Holocene must all be open to question.
Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights of nature, posthumanism, the commons, geoengineering, and civil disobedience, this handbook will be of enormous interest to academics, students, and others with interests in ecological law and the current environmental crisis.
Interrogating the Anthropocene
Peter Burdon and James Martel
First Laws
The Problem with Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene Epoch: Reimagining International Environmental Law’s Mantra Principle Through Ubuntu
Louis J. Kotzé, Sam Adelman and Felix Dube
The Sovereign Order of Tiƞa: Enduring Traditions of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa
Anatoli Ignatov
The Super-factual Anthropocene and Encounters with Indigenous Law
Kirsten Anker and Mark Antaki
Subjects of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene Archive: Human and Inhuman Subjects and Sediments
Kathleen Birrell
We, Earthbound People: Constituent Power in Entangled Times
Daniel Matthews
Chastened Humanism in a Necrotic Anthropocene: Transcendence toward Less
Ira Allen
Lawscapes of Hope and Despair
Biodiversity: The Neglected Lens for Reimagining Property, Responsibility and Law for the Anthropocene
Paul Govind and Michelle Lim
The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships and the Anthropocene
Renisa Mawani
Ocean Acidification and the Anthropocene: An Emergency Response
Prue Taylor
Outer Space in the Anthropocene
Emily Ray
Ecological and Earth Systems Law
Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene
Rakhyun E. Kim
Collapse or Sustainability? Ecological Integrity as a Fundamental Norm of Law
Klaus Bosselmann
Making Ecological Integrity Human-inclusive in the Anthropocene
Geoffrey Garver
Dignity and Human Rights
The Anthropocene and Human Rights: A New Context and the Need to Revisit Collective Human Concerns
Karen Morrow
Dignity in the Anthropocene
Erin Daly and Dina Lupin
Regulating Nature and Nature Regulates
Regulating Nature and the Rule of Law
Han Somsen
Solar Geoengineering and the Challenge of Governing Multiple Risks in the Anthropocene
Kerryn Brent
The Transformative Power of Receptivity: Building a Smart Political Energy Grid in Response to Planetary Ecological Crisis
Romand Coles and Lia Haro
Imagination and Utopia
Imagined Utopias
Benjamin J. Richardson
Myth for the Anthropocene
Peter Burdon and James Martel
The Nomos of Creativity in the Anthropocene
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Lachlan Hoy
Learning Ecological Law: Innovating Legal Curriculum and Pedagogy
Kate Galloway and Nicole Graham
Post-Script
Law, Responsibility and the Capitalocene: In Search of New Arts of Living
Anna Grear, Sally Wheeler and Peter Burdon
Biography
Peter D. Burdon is Associate Professor at Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia.
James Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, USA.
"This book opens up along a new horizon of what Anthropocene might mean for human juridical responsibility. Exceptionally interdisciplinary, this is a tapestry of perspectives that eschews romanticisation and remains critical throughout, reaching back to the indigenous roots of first laws and extending to new takes on geoengineering. This is a truly planetary book and perhaps its main lesson is this: that human exceptionalism must and can be translated into human responsibilisation with regards to our planet. If you want to find the tools to do this, read this book." Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab, London
"Burdon and Martel have brought us an exciting and diverse collection of interdisciplinary essays that address today’s most urgent and critical questions. The authors marshal a strikingly wide range of conceptual resources, inspiring us to reimagine the human and the rules by which we live. It is abounding in creativity when we most need it!" Hasana Sharp, McGill University, Canada
