Writing Planet Politics
Locating nature in international law
Re-examining international law assumptions about the natural world is not mere theoretical speculation, write Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm. It is an urgent step to address pressing environmental challenges.
Indigenous peoples, climate justice and human rights
In a new book Giada Giacomini argues for a paradigm shift in international law to better protect Indigenous peoples and their lands. Humankind lives, she says, on an existential continuum with other natural elements.
Between ecology & indigeneity
Environmental struggles and harms are bound together with the histories and struggles of Indigenous peoples. Stefanie Fishel, Christine Winter & Anthony Burke introduce a new special issue of Borderlands.
Oil palm & the Marind
In West Papua, oil palm expansion undermines the relations of indigenous people to forest plants and animals. By Sophie Chao.
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