Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel “Waslala” reveals the many tensions that arise when one explores human rights within a context of planetary ecological crisis. While the novel criticizes human exploitation of natural resources and the resultant differential development and economic inequality, at the same time it affirms access to and control of resources as a fundamental human right. Using Steve Stern and Scott Straus’s framework of the “human rights paradox” and Jason Moore’s description of the “Capitalocene,” I argue that “Waslala” demonstrates two fundamental tensions between human rights and environmental issues. First, the novel shows how attention to the universal principles of global ecological balance may undermine the human right...
The discussion about this global framework of rights and duties, between humans and other living thi...
The ethical dimensions of global ecological change have not yet become the focus of much critical at...
This contribution reflects on the potential impact of the rights of nature for ecological justice. F...
Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel “Waslala” reveals the many tensions that arise when one explores h...
Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel Waslala reveals the many tensions t...
Neoliberal capitalist growth and ecological exploitation have been raising formerly unknown problems...
There is broad scientific consensus on the anthropogenic roots of the environmental crisis, whether ...
Globalization has a credible future only if the borderless economy does not overstretch the resilien...
In this paper, we analyze the origin of the links between global bioethics (which we differentiate f...
This Chapter presents a constructive critique of environmental human rights. The analysis is ‘constr...
There are growing trends in the human rights to substantially extend the values to protect the envir...
The emergence of the rights of nature is a clear response to the current environmental crisis. But s...
The earliest, and still most influential, human rights texts were drafted at a time when environment...
The 2012 Onati Workshop, ‘Human Rights and the Environment: In Search of a New Relationship’, began ...
Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with 21st century i...
The discussion about this global framework of rights and duties, between humans and other living thi...
The ethical dimensions of global ecological change have not yet become the focus of much critical at...
This contribution reflects on the potential impact of the rights of nature for ecological justice. F...
Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel “Waslala” reveals the many tensions that arise when one explores h...
Gioconda Belli’s futuristic novel Waslala reveals the many tensions t...
Neoliberal capitalist growth and ecological exploitation have been raising formerly unknown problems...
There is broad scientific consensus on the anthropogenic roots of the environmental crisis, whether ...
Globalization has a credible future only if the borderless economy does not overstretch the resilien...
In this paper, we analyze the origin of the links between global bioethics (which we differentiate f...
This Chapter presents a constructive critique of environmental human rights. The analysis is ‘constr...
There are growing trends in the human rights to substantially extend the values to protect the envir...
The emergence of the rights of nature is a clear response to the current environmental crisis. But s...
The earliest, and still most influential, human rights texts were drafted at a time when environment...
The 2012 Onati Workshop, ‘Human Rights and the Environment: In Search of a New Relationship’, began ...
Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) explores the intersection of the nonhuman with 21st century i...
The discussion about this global framework of rights and duties, between humans and other living thi...
The ethical dimensions of global ecological change have not yet become the focus of much critical at...
This contribution reflects on the potential impact of the rights of nature for ecological justice. F...