Year: 2023
Type: book-review
Abstract: an incredibly interesting expression that opens up avenues towards potentially fruitful political analyses.The book is also somewhat distant from the politics announced in its title.If politics is always about power, in one form of another, there is strikingly little discussion of it in the book.Contestation is presented as a very important element for understanding the evolution of RoN but is mostly present through procedural and institutional instances.Issues like how power relations within communities may be influenced by RoN, whether the concept of rights itself invokes a history of power struggle, or the democratic implications of judicial activism, are not as explored as one might expect given the political dimension that the book self-consciously takes on.The point of scholarship is not to cover everything or satisfy every reader, but rather to add to the evolving discussion in meaningful ways.Ideally, a book like this poses new problems.On this count, the book is a success, also because it poses important questions in a very lucid way, such as why RoN developed when they did, why they look so different in different places, or how they may be compatible with economic rights.Empirical discussions will benefit from this work greatly, while theoretical ones have much here to dialogue with.Kauffman and Martin, already established scholars in RoN literature, have used their considerable expertise and previous work to produce a text of undeniable importance.
Source: Environmental Politics
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4322763565