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SUMMARY:Ecological Law and More-than-Human Rights in the UK: Challenges an
 d Possibilities - Helen Dancer\, University of Sussex
DTSTART:20250624T140000Z
DTEND:20250624T150000Z
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CONTACT:Bronte Evans Rayward
DESCRIPTION:‘UK government can never accept idea nature has rights\, del
 egate tells UN’ (The Guardian\, 2024). And yet\, at community and region
 al levels\, we are seeing council motions to recognise river rights\, a ne
 w Ecocide Bill before the Scottish Parliament\, and the world’s first We
 ll-being of Future Generations Act in Wales. New ecological approaches to 
 law and rights are gaining momentum in the UK. How transformative are they
 ? How might we treat our more-than-human world differently if we were to r
 ecognise nonhuman rights? What might we learn from other contexts\, anthro
 pological and critical perspectives? This seminar will ground these questi
 ons in insights from Helen’s recent research projects that have engaged 
 with law\, music and human-Earth relations in the UK and Ecuador. She argu
 es that ecological law and rights-based approaches hold potential for tran
 sforming systems of law and governance\, but that legal change must always
  be sensitive to context\, existing legal and cultural practices\, and the
  local knowledges and perspectives that shape relationships between people
  and place.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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