'The EU Charter on Rights of Nature – colliding cosmovisions on nonhuman relations' by Marie-Catherine Petersmann in Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Costas Douzinas (eds) Non-Human Rights (Elgar, 2024) comments
The movement of granting ‘rights to nature’has become prominent in academic debates. Much has been written on the self-proclaimed ‘revolutionary’potential that ‘rights of nature’present to overcome the destructive world-ecology brought about by capitalist modes in inhabiting the Earth. Granting rights to ‘nature’has been described by some as a practice of ‘legal animism’, and by others as one of ‘shamanic magic’. This is partly due to the fact that animistic Indigenous cosmologies informed activist movements that today call for a legal ‘paradigm shift’to re-connect humans with non-humans,
