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Earth Jurisprudence

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doi:10.4324/9781003201120-14

Authors

Peter Burdon · Samuel Alexander

Reported year

2023

Reported language

en

Source type

book-chapter

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.842739+00:00

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2026-11-10T16:58:51.003348+00:00

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Documentary abstract — original language

This chapter critically engages the meaning and uses of anthropocentrism in Earth Jurisprudence and ecological law scholarship. First, anthropocentrism is broken down into its component parts – perceptual, descriptive, and normative. Following, the chapter argues that the Anthropocene compels humans to recognise descriptive anthropocentrism and their place as subjects capable of rupturing the Earth system. This need not lead to an arrogant or hubristic normativity. Hence, the possibility of engaging with the Anthropocene with humility and caution is explored. Anthropocentrism is then put in conversation with the idea of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has advanced this program by reshaping human subjectivity on the model of the firm or homo economicus . Neoliberalism erodes all values that cannot be economised and seeks to spread instrumental rationality to all aspects of daily life. As a dominant logic, neoliberalism has important implications for how anthropocentrism is engaged and understood. This chapter argues that ideas like human superiority and dominion no longer need to be explicitly advanced and defended. Instead, the normative dimension of anthropocentrism survives as an implicit assumption or perhaps a point from which neoliberal rationality begins and spreads its logic. The chapter also considers how rights arguments (e.g., rights of nature) can be co-opted by neoliberalism to further capital accumulation. Finally, the chapter concludes that a contemporary reading of normative anthropocentrism requires the exploration of alternative languages and mechanisms for attaining deep notions of environmental justice.

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DOI

10.4324/9781003201120-14

OPENALEX

W4376150111

OPENAIRE

doi_________::92c17e47421ee7b1979affff8ab498ed

ISBN

1003201121 · 9781003201120

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Book chapter

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Part of book or chapter of book · book-chapter

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Routledge

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Routledge

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003201120-14
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4376150111

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