Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio

Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon (eBook, ePUB)

The Lawness of Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Extending law beyond the human, the book examines the conceptual openings, methodological challenges, and ethical conundrums of law in a time of socio-ecological transition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003849209
• Artikelnr.: 69638628

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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