UDTR Global Rights of Nature Radar

Law and More than Human Societies

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doi:10.71389/gjal.156765

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Afshin Akhtar‐Khavari

Reported year

2025

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en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.584293+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:12:04.770270+00:00

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Queensland University of Technology

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AU

Documentary abstract — original language

Thank you for the opportunity to be here and to speak to this topic of law and nonhuman beings and the societies that they construct.Human and non-human social beings actively participate in the evolution of their own cultures, norms, and governance regimes.This means that each being lives through a multiplicity rather than a single social and normatively structured world.Quite often we are mostly concerned with the implications of how human beings relate to other beings, geological spaces and materials.Life, however, does not solely revolve around a cocreative process between human and non-human beings.Non-human beings have their own connections with one another and other non-humans, both with and without our involvement.The Anthropocene posits that human beings influence the functioning of the natural world at the deepest levels.It is imperative that we move beyond this metaphor and recognise both the agency and social and normative worlds of all living beings, which may or may not be influenced by humans.3 There are bodies of scholarship that have sought to understand the complex relations between non-human worlds.Some seek to integrate and entwine humanity within the natural world, as seen in Haraway's work on 'sympoeisis' 4 or Margulis's concept of 'holobionts'.5 Others endeavour to decentre humanity, positioning it as one of the many social living beings interconnected within our networks or assemblages.61 This paper is based on the keynote delivered at the 2023 symposium on Biodiversity and Animal Law: Challenges and Synergies hosted by the Helsinki Animal Law Centre and the Research Group on Rights of Nature and Animals.My thanks to

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W4407203253

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10.71389/gjal.156765

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.71389/gjal.156765
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