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Relational personhood: a conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law

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Clé publique

doi:10.1080/10383441.2021.2003744

Auteurs

Anna Arstein-Kerslake · Erin L. O’Donnell · Rosemary Kayess · Joanne Watson

Année déclarée

2021

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.520814+00:00

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2026-11-10T01:26:20.308629+00:00

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Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

Deakin University · Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia · Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway · Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia · Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia · Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway · The University of Melbourne · UNSW Sydney · University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

People with disability have demanded the recognition of full legal personhood in order to realise their rights and to overcome dominance and oppression. Legal personhood is also being claimed for similar reasons for natural entities, including rivers, forests, and mountains. However, the prevailing neo-liberal understanding of legal personhood relies on the individual exercising personhood independently. This may not be enough to secure the interests and realise the rights of people with disability, natural entities, or other cohorts that are not experiencing a wealth of power and privilege. In this article, we attempt to overcome centuries of (white, able-bodied, cis gender) male centric theory of legal personhood. We reject the dominant conceptions of personhood from liberal political theory that emphasise an atomistic, isolated individual making independent decisions. Instead, we argue for a different conception of legal personhood – relational personhood. We use insights from feminist theories of relational autonomy as well as the experience of disability to help us re-conceptualise personhood to embrace exercising autonomy through a collaborative process of acknowledging, interpreting and acting on an individual’s expressions of will and preference. We then apply this new conception to the recognition of legal personhood in nature and explore how natural entities can exercise their personhood via their relationships with humans – and, in particular, Indigenous Peoples, who have developed close relationships with natural entities over centuries. Our aim is to demonstrate the utility of a conception of legal personhood that encompass the reality of the interdependence of all individuals and entities.

Identifiants

DOI

10.1080/10383441.2021.2003744

OPENALEX

W3213338506

HANDLE

11343/290762

ISSN

1038-3441 · 1839-4205

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Doctrine

Types déclarés par les sources

article · journal-article

Éditeurs

Informa UK Limited

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Fleuve / rivière · Forêt · Montagne

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Crossref · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2 · Document 3

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2021.2003744
• Handle · https://hdl.handle.net/11343/290762
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W3213338506

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