Non-Human Rights : Critical Perspectives / edited by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Costas Douzinas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Douzinas, Costas, 1951- editor.

Alvarez Nakagawa, Alexis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Philosophy.

Civil rights.

Jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

Non-human entities, including animals, mountains, rainforests, eco-systems, AI, and robots, are beginning to be considered the subjects of rights in different parts of the world. This innovative book provides a critical outlook on this emerging trend at the crossroad of two of the main concerns of the 21st century: climate change and automation.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

A critical introduction to Non-Human Rights

1. Residual humanism

2. On the juridical existence of animals: the case of a bear in Colombia's Constitutional Court

3. Why nature has no rights

4. The rights of robots

5. Who is the subject of (non) human rights?

6. Deliberate legal equivocations: making non-human persons, multiplying differences

7. The EU Charter on Rights of Nature - colliding cosmovisions on non/human relations

8. A diplomacy for human/non-human relations: letter to a young climate activist

9. More-than-human rights to data

10. Decentring the human or rescaling the state? Grassroots movements for the 'rights' of nature in the United States

11. Non-Human Rights, Amazonian ecocide and Davi Kopenawa's counter-ethnography of merchandise people

12. Do androids dream of having rights?

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80220-852-6