Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah (University of Alberta)

Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This original book analyses and reimagines the concept of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western legal perspective. Built upon the intersection of law, politics, and history in the context of Africa, its peoples and their experiences, customary law and other legal cosmologies, this ground-breaking study applies a critical legal analysis to Africa's interaction with conceptualising and operationalising sustainable development. It proposes a turn to non-Western legal normativity as the foundational principle for reimagining sustainable development in international law. It highlights eco-legal philosophies and principles in remaking sustainable development where ecological integrity assumes a central focus in the reimagined conceptualisation and operationalisation of sustainable development. While this pioneering book highlights Africa as its analytical pivot, its arguments and proposals are useful beyond Africa. Connecting global discourses on nature, the environment, rights and development, Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah illuminates our current thinking on sustainable development in international law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009354035
• Artikelnr.: 72355137

Autorenporträt

Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; and previously was a United Nations-Nippon Foundation Fellow at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Secretariat. His doctoral research was awarded the Allard Law Dissertation Prize by the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Sustainable Development
2. The Logic of Sustainable Development
3. Sustainable Development and the Paradox of Legal Universalism
4. Problematising the Normative Trajectory of Sustainable Development in Africa
5. Sustainable Development and the Turn to African Legal Ontologies
6. Ecocosmologies, Ecolegality and African Environmentalisms as Ecological Law
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.