Beyond the Politics of Recognition: Constitutional Collaboration for Environmental Justice in Colombia
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper draws on class materials, legal theory, and personal experiences to examine how Indigenous and non-Indigenous legal actors can establish collaborative constitutional frameworks for environmental protection that go beyond the Politics of Recognition. I draw on experiences from the Gender & the Environment in the Amazon class and my role organizing a panel at the Constitutional Law conferences at UT Austin to ground this exploration. This topic is crucial, given the growing trend in certain South American legal systems to constitutionalize Nature Rights, incorporate Indigenous, Black, and Peasant epistemologies into hegemonic Constitutional Law frameworks, the production of Indigenous, Black, and Peasant communities’ own Constitutional Law, and the reliance on Courts and Rights frameworks by these communities to both contest and regulate state intervention, resist all sorts of violence against the communities, and resist extractivist projects in the Amazon.
Author: Ramirez Salazar, Cesar Steven
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7214157731