UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Mother Earth and the matriarchal imaginary of environmental law: posthuman advances and biopolitical limits of the rights of nature

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.4324/9781003633518-11

Auteurs

Coralie Raffenne

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

COUV

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.518109+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-09T19:13:58.872952+00:00

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Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Centre de recherche Droit Dauphine · Université Paris Dauphine-PSL · Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the figure of Mother Earth has been recognized as a person with autonomous rights in the law of various traditions globally. Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution marked a significant moment when it granted legal personality to the Pachamama . Bolivia followed suit by recognizing the rights of Mother Earth, although not as constitutionally protected fundamental rights. Similarly, New Zealand’s Te Awa Tupua law (2017) enshrined the rights of the Whanganui River as a legal person, embodying the Māori principle Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au (I am the river and the river is me). These legal reforms attempt to integrate Indigenous worldviews into Western legal frameworks inherited from colonialism. They have been welcomed as a radical overhaul of the anthropocentric paradigm of law. Enshrining the figure of Mother Earth as a subject of law can also be interpreted as a shift toward ecofeminist ideals, where nature’s legal personhood aligns with matriarchal mythologies. However, these evolutions have also been denounced as the biopolitical subjection of nature resulting from the inability of Western law’s rights discourse to encompass the deeper spiritual and physical connections between humans and nonhumans, celebrated in Indigenous cosmologies. Posthuman feminist care ethics might offer a better frame than rights for integrating the specific relation of stewardship encapsulated in Indigenous cosmologies.

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OPENAIRE

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DOI

10.4324/9781003633518-11

OPENALEX

W4417465010

HAL

hal-05442657

OAI

hal:hal-05442657v1

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Famille documentaire

Chapitre d’ouvrage

Types déclarés par les sources

COUV · Part of book or chapter of book · book-chapter

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Fleuve / rivière · Terre Mère · Pachamama

Les mentions d’entités ne constituent pas une preuve de reconnaissance juridique. La juridiction étudiée est distincte du pays d’affiliation des auteurs.

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OpenAIRE · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3 · Document 4

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3 · Document 4

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003633518-11
• HAL · https://hal.science/hal-05442657
• Document · https://hal.science/hal-05442657v1
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4417465010

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