UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Hidden Relationalities of European Rights of Nature Initiatives:The River Frome and Rodden Meadow, Nature in the EU and the Mer de Glace

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Katarina Hovden

Année déclarée

2025

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en

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other

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Rights of Nature and related juridical arrangements are among contemporary efforts to explicitly address, recuperate, and reframe the relationship between humans and nature through the vocabulary and praxis of law. While a common thread of relationality reverberates throughout contemporary discourses on rights of Nature, it is not always clear how this relationship is being re-imagined, particularly in relation to initiatives situated within European socio-legal contexts dominated by western dualisms. This thesis examines the relational proposals and aspirations underpinning three European case studies: a byelaw for the River Frome and Rodden Meadow in England, a proposal for an EU Charter on the fundamental rights of Nature, and the case of the Mer de Glace glacier before a European peoples’ tribunal on aquatic ecosystems. Developed as a socio-legal study, the thesis engages eco-jurisprudential, eco-feminist, critical, and pluriversal lenses, and is centred around legal analysis and interviews with the advocates of the initiatives mentioned above. By placing existing legal arrangements side by side with the proposals contained in the initiatives, the thesis reveals how the initiatives intervened in the European socio-legal contexts from which they emerged, and what relational possibilities they prefigured. Importantly, the thesis argues that these initiatives do not introduce human-nature relatedness in the law, and it shows how western dualisms predicated on human/nature separateness nonetheless enact relations of severance. The thesis furthermore finds that although the initiatives propose legal relations that differ from the dominant approaches of the European socio-legal contexts from which they emerged, these initiatives are ultimately embedded in a richer fabric of relatedness than is captured by the textual proposals of these initiatives themselves. Foregrounding this richer and more multiple fabric of relatedness, the thesis argues that these initiatives (and the webs of relations that gave rise to them) constitute parts of ongoing efforts to reclaim buried histories, to re-centre lived experiences of relatedness, and to prefigure more life-affirming possibilities for co-existence in, and with, a more-than-human world.

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Fleuve / rivière · Glacier · Mer · Écosystème

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OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• Document · https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/da/publications/6105fca0-3e6c-405b-b6b5-857b6cb743ba
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7128943146

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