Laws and the Humanities for the Anthropocene Reading Group

Alain Pottage, “Holocene Jurisprudence” (2019) 10(2) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 153-175.

Bruno Latour, “Second Lecture: How not to (de-)animate nature” in Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2017) 41-74.

Anna Grear, “Anthropocene ‘Time’?” – A Reflection on Temporalities in the ‘New Age of the Human’” in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed), Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory (Routledge 2019) 297-315.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Anthropocene Time: The Seventh History and Theory Lecture” (2018) 57(1) History and Theory 5-32.

Walter D Mignolo and Catherine E Walsh, “Introduction” and “The Decolonial For: Resurgences, Shifts, and Movements” in On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (2018) 1-32.

Heather Davis and Zoe Todd, “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene” (2017) 16(4) An International Journal for Critical Geographies 761-780.

Alf Hornborg, “Colonialism in the Anthropocene: The Political Ecology of the Money-Energy-Technology Complex” (2019) 10(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 7-21.

Samid Suliman, Carol Farbotko, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Karen Elizabeth McNamara, Fanny Thornton, Celia McMichael & Taukiei Kitara, “Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene” (2019) 14(3) Mobilities 298-318.

Phil Henderson, “The Poetics of Settler Fatalism: Responses to Ecocide from within the Anthropocene” (2019) 7(1)1 Pivot 5-32.

Kathryn Yusoff, “Politics of the Anthropocene: Formation of the Commons as a Geologic Process” (2018) 50(1) Antipode 255-276.

Anna Grear, “Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts towards a New Juridical Ontology” (2018) 43(1) Science, Technology and Human Values 129-145.

Elena Blanco and Anna Grear, “Personhood, Jurisdiction and Injustice: Law, Colonialities and the Global Order" (2019) 10(1) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 86-117.

Maria Ackchurin, “Constructing the Rights of Nature: Constitutional Reform, Mobilization, and Environmental Protection in Ecuador” (2015) 40(4) Law & Social Inquiry 937-968.

Bruno Latour, ‘Essays 1-9’ in Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity Press, 2017) 8-44.

Kathryn Yusoff, ‘Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins’ in A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) 23-64.

Kathryn Yusoff, ‘The Inhumanities’ in A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) 65-85.

Walter D Mignolo, ‘The Invention of the Human and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power: Racism, Sexism, and Nature’ in Walter D Mignolo and Catherine E Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Duke University Press, 2018) 153-176.

Brenna Bhandar, ‘Use’ in Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Duke University Press, 2018) 33-77.

Manuel Jiménez Fonzeca, ‘Jus gentium and the Transformation of Latin American Nature: One More Reading of Vitoria?’ in Martti Koskenniemi (ed.), International Law and Empire: Historical Explorations (Oxford University Press, 2017) 123-148.

Vito De Lucia, “Critical Environmental Law and the Double Register of the Anthropocene: A Biopolitical Reading” in Louis J. Kotzé (ed.), Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene (Hart Publishing, 2017) 97-116.

Zoe Todd, ‘Refracting the State Through Human-Fish Relations: Fishing, Indigenous Legal Orders and Colonialism in North/Western Canada’ (2018) 7(1) Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 60-75.

Ecocide in a Pandemic: Laws of Exposure
and Encounter in the Anthropocene

In this seminar, we will explore the confluence of colonisation and ecocide in the Anthropocene thesis, and the challenge to modernist claims to mastery posed by the existential threat of a global pandemic.  Whereas the language of battle dominates political and scientific narrativisation, viral zoonosis and microbial agency provoke a radical recalibration for our contemporary moment.  We will be in conversation with Dr Vito De Lucia, Professor Anna Grear, and Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

David Chandler and Julian Reid, ‘Becoming Indigenous: The “Speculative Turn” in Anthropology and the (Re)colonisation of Indigeneity’ Postcolonial Studies (2020) DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1745993.

Anthropocene

Brad Evans and Julian Reid, “Anthropocene” in Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (2014) 1-37.

Critical Environmental Law as Method
in the Anthropocene

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, “Critical Environmental Law as Method in the Anthropocene” in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks, Research Methods in Environmental Law (2017) 131-155.

Environmentalism and
an Anarchist Research Method

Peter Burdon and James Martel, “Environmentalism and an Anarchist Research Method” in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks, Research Methods in Environmental Law (2017) 316-337.

Feeling the Djang:
The Camp of Senior Law Man Neidjie

Christine Black, “Feeling the Djang: The Camp of Senior Law Man Neidjie” in Christine Black, The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence (2010) 23-42.

The End of the Journey:
A Camp of Contemporary Concerns

Christine Black, “The End of the Journey: A Camp of Contemporary Concerns” in Christine Black, The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence (2010) 167-184.

Introduction

Rob Nixon, “Introduction” in Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) 1-44.

From Time Immemorial

Alexis Wright, “From Time Immemorial” in Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (2006) 1-11.

Unsettling ‘Blood’s Country’

Kate Wright, “Unsettling ‘Blood’s Country’” in Kate Wright, Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More than Human Encounters (2017) 1-18.

Dust Cycle

Alexis Wright, “Dust Cycle” in Alexis Wright, The Swan Book (2013) 6-74.

Writing Place, Writing Laws:
Laws & the Humanities in the ‘Anthropocene’

Workshop

Slow Violence, Neoliberalism,
and the Environmental Picaresque

Rob Nixon, “Slow Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Environmental Picaresque” in Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) 45-67.

The Power and Purpose of Literature

Alexis Wright, “The Power and Purpose of Literature” (2018) 77(4) Meanjin (pp)

Problems with Making and Governing Global Kinds
of Knowledge

Mike Hulme, “Problems with Making and Governing Global Kinds of Knowledge” (2010) 20 Global Environmental Change 558-564.

Cosmopolitan Climates:
Hybridity, Foresight, Meaning

Mike Hulme, “Cosmopolitan Climates: Hybridity, Foresight, Meaning” (2010) 27(2-3) Theory, Culture & Society 267-276.

Gaps’ in Climate Change Knowledge: Do They Exist?
Can They Be Filled?

Mike Hulme, “‘Gaps’ in Climate Change Knowledge: Do They Exist?  Can They Be Filled?” (2018) 10(1) Environmental Humanities 330-337.

Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness

Thom van Doreen, Eben Kirksey and Ursula Münster, “Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness” (2016) 8(1) Environmental Humanities 1-23.

Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds

Thom van Doreen and Deborah Bird Rose, “Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds” (2016) 8(1) Environmental Humanities 77-94.

Can You Hear the Rivers Sing? Legal Personhood,
Ontology, and the Nitty-Gritty of Governance

Cristy Clark, Nia Emmanouil, John Page & Alessandro Pelizzon, “Can You Hear the Rivers Sing? Legal Personhood, Ontology, and the Nitty Gritty of Governance” (2018) 45(4)Ecology Law Quarterly 787-844

Bruno Latour, “Fourth Lecture: The Anthropocene and the Destruction of (the Image of) the Globe” in Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017) 111-145.

Jeremy Baskin, “Paradigm Dressed as Epoch: The Ideology of the Anthropocene” (2015) 24 Environmental Values 9-29.

Louis J. Kotzé, “Reflections on the Future of Environmental Law Scholarship and Methodology in the Anthropocene” in Ole W Pedersen, Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship: Essays on Purpose, Shape and Direction (Cambridge University Press, 2018) 140-161.

Vito De Lucia, “Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism: A Biopolitical Reading of Environmental Law” (2017) 8(2) Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 181-202.

Bruno Latour, “Whose Cosmos, Which Cosmopolitics? Comments on the Peace Terms of Ulrich Beck” (2004) 10 (3) Common Knowledge 450-462.

Matthew C Watson, “Cosmopolitics and the Subaltern: Problematizing Latour’s Idea of the Commons” (2011) 28(3) Theory, Culture, and Society 55-79.

Elizabeth Povinelli, “The Three Figures of Geontology” in Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (2016) 1-29.

Kathryn Yusoff, “The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower” in Mat Coleman and John Agnew (eds), Handbook on the Geographies of Power (2018) 203-216.

Anna Grear, “Deconstructing Anthropos: A Critical Legal Reflection on ‘Anthropocentric’ Law and Anthropocene ‘Humanity’” (2015) 26(3) Law and Critique 225-249.

Zoe Todd, “Indigenizing the Anthropocene” in Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (eds), Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environment and Epistemology (2015) 241-254.

Kathryn Yusoff, “Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene” (2013) 31(5) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 779-795.

Sarah Whatmore, “Geographies of/for a More Than Human World: Towards a Relational Ethics” in Sarah Whatmore, Hybrid Geographies: Natures, Cultures, Spaces (London: Sage, 2002) 146-167.

Donna Haraway, “Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene” in Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017) 30-57.

Donna Haraway, “Making Kin: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene” in Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017) 99-103.

Thom Van Dooren, “Temporal promiscuities in the Chthulucene: A Reflection on Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble” (2018) 8(1) Dialogues in Human Geography 91-93.