Non-Human Rights by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (Editor); Costas Douzinas (Editor)Call Number: K3525 .A35 N66 2024 (e-book)
ISBN: 9781802208528
Publication Date: 2024-04-23
Non-human rights are a reality today: this book unpacks their paradoxes as well as their significance for our historic crucible. As animals, rivers, mountains, rainforests, ecosystems, and synthetic entities such as machines, AI, and robots gain recognition as subjects of rights in different parts of the world, non-human rights become part of our ordinary legal landscape and vocabulary. This timely book provides a critical outlook on this rising trend at the crossroads of two of the main concerns of the 21st century: climate change and automation. In seeking to address the foundations, genealogies, philosophies, and impacts of non-human rights, the contributors to this volume examine both their potential and limitations.