How might we rethink our relationship with one of the world’s most important ecosystems?
The Amazon of Rights project has recently released five “Amazongraphies” on Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and 10 Canonical Texts on Ecocentric Normativity.
Professor Luis Eslava, one of the three directors of the Amazon of Rights project, together with Dr Jenny Garcia Ruales (University of Erfurt), the project’s Research Coordinator, launched these reports on the platform Critical Legal Thinking.
Approaching the Amazon as a juridical ecosystem, these Amazongraphies invite us to understand the Amazon not simply as an environmental asset, but as a living juridical ecosystem where law is created, contested and reimagined through relationships between peoples, communities and the more-than-human world.
“To engage with the Amazon as a juridical ecosystem is to shift perspective. It requires moving away from viewing the Amazonian biomass as an object of law and toward recognising it as a space where law is continuously produced through relations that exceed the human,” they write.
“In the current planetary moment, the question is not whether law must change. It is how and from where that change will be articulated.”
The Amazon of Rights project will soon release a feature documentary and an edited volume with Cambridge University Press.
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, La Trobe University is part of the Amazon of Rights project, together with the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) in Potsdam. and the University of Erfurt, Germany.
