Governance as if the earth mattered

[Shrishtee Bajpai]

Dear all, 

This article on exploring 'Earthy Governance: Democracy that Centres all Life" might be of interest to you. Please take a look, hope you find it of relevance, and we look forward to your thoughts. 

https://frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/earthy-governance-indigenous-democracy-nature-rights-global/article70586934.ece

warm regards, s

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Shrishtee Bajpai 

Theme Coordinator, Alternatives, Kalpavriksh 

Member, Vikalp Sangam 

Member, Global Tapestry of Alternatives 

Executive committee member, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature 

Emerging futures, Program member, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 

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[Ariel Salleh]

This is a superb essay on our globally critical shift towards cultural bioregionalism and commoning.
Be sure to read it.
Ariel
www.arielsalleh.info

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[mp]

Fine writing - here for instance:

"----This is primarily because as a formal legal approach, RoN is still
appealing to or giving central importance to the State, an institution
that inescapably separates “humans” from “nature” and “individual” from
“community”. In this framework, a community that involves
more-than-humans is unthinkable. RoN in such a case emerges as an
interface that enables such a system to only partially recognise the
inseparability of humans and rivers, mountains, and the rest of nature,
and the entanglements amongst them..."

--- though, -- it would be nice to go a little further:

It is not "just" an "interface"...

- rights (property, human etc.) and the often associated need for expert
representation in practice - i.e. exercising a given "right" - is also
the way the state and its cosmovision extends into, names, defines,
price stamps, taxes, and thus controls subjects and objects.

With rights come obligations and those obligations rest on subjugation
and obedience vis-a-vis the monopoly of power.

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[Ariel Salleh]

Yes mp, this is absolutely true.
A 'rights of nature’ approach must rely on the state - which is always a patriarchal institution.
A parallel can be drawn with ‘liberal feminism’ which simply seeks to create equal 'rights for women' alongside men.
And as you say - the above moves still rest on subjugation and obedience vis-a-vis the monopoly of power.

But let’s take this a little further -
Every time we rely on IT as instrument of our political change - such as in this very conversation -
we dig ourselves deeper into the growing powers of the global electronic mega-state.

How will we deal with this very material contradiction?
Ariel

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