Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Bewilderment and excitement is what I felt reading in The Guardian, in March 2017, that the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand had been granted legal standing, personhood rights.What did it mean?What might the political impact of such legal status be to our current ecological crisis?Could this halt the course of capitalist encroachment of nature and its resources?And how would Te Ao Māori (Māori world view) contribute to Western post-human debates?I felt hope.First and foremost, for the resilient struggles of Māori, and for the government attempts to amend the wrongdoings of the past and start honouring the promises made by the Treaty of Waitangi, the country's constitutional document signed by the British Crown and Māori chiefs in 1840.
Source: Parse Journal
Author: Mercedes Vicente
Institution: Royal College of Art
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3214419748