Hacia una Ecología del Derecho: Tensiones, Diálogos y Complementariedades entre la Administración de Justicia Estatal y los Horizontes de la Justicia Biocultural
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyzes the structural frictions and the possibilities for articulation between state justice administration systems—characterized by a monist or formalist approach—and the emerging demands for biocultural justice put forward by Indigenous and peasant communities in Latin America. Through a qualitative approach and a review of documents and case law, the study examines how the protection of nature as a subject of rights either clashes with or engages in dialogue with the classical categories of Western subjective law. The study argues that overcoming these tensions requires reconfiguring traditional legal pluralism toward a dialogical and interlegal model, in which territorial worldviews are not subsumed by state hierarchy, but rather recognized as autonomous sources of normative and ecological validity.
Source: SUSTENTABILIDAD HOY
DOI: 10.68245/83p78a27
Author: Elia Watts Osorio
Institution: Fundación Tecnológica Antonio de Arévalo
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7223563339