Rights of Nature in the Constitutionalisms of the Global South
some reflections from the theory of legal formants
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https://doi.org/10.21057/10.21057/repamv16n2.2022.49293Keywords:
legal formant, rights of nature, ecology, constitucionalismAbstract
Many legal systems in the South of the world have granted legal personality to natural elements, by constitutional, statutory or jurisprudential means. In this article, the phenomenon is analyzed in the light of the theory of legal formants by Rodolfo Sacco. The author wonders if it is possible to consider Nature as a formant, but this implies overcoming the difficulty in defining the concepts of nature and culture. On the basis of the conceptual instruments of the anthropology of nature, the article, on the one hand, questions the use of the expression “cultural formant” in relation to the rights of nature; on the other hand, argues that a monist reading of the relationship between human beings and nature should push Western legal thinking towards a paradigm shift.
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