EcoLaw

Taylor & Francis

EcoLawLegality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature\nAuthor(s): Margaret Davies\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367651992, 978-0367651992\nSynopsis\nThis book re-imagines law as ecolaw.\n\nThe key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. Law is part of the material everything that is connected to everything else. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it .