Locating Nature

Usha Natarajan is Edward W. Said fellow at Columbia University. She is a leader in the TWAIL movement and a founding editor of the TWAIL Review. Her research on environmental justice in the Global South received the International Union for Conservation of Nature Environmental Law Award. With over forty publications, she has led global research grants from the EU and Canada and has worked with the United Nations. Julia Dehm is senior lecturer at La Trobe University Law School. Her research addresses international and domestic climate and environmental law, natural resources, human rights, economic inequality and social justice. She is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and author of Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge, 2021).

• Introduction: where is the environment? Locating nature in international law Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm; Part I. Locating Nature in International Law: Towards New Thinking: 1. Locating nature: making and unmaking international law Usha Natarajan and Kishan Khoday; 2. From classical liberalism to neoliberalism: explaining the contradictions in the international environmental law project Hélène Mayrand; 3. Reconfiguring environmental governance in the green economy: extraction, stewardship and natural capital Julia Dehm; Part II. Unmaking International Law: 4. Appropriating nature: commerce, property and the commodification of nature in the Law of Nations Ileana Porras; 5. Reflections on a political ecology of sovereignty: engaging international law and 'the map' Tyler McCreary and Vanessa Lamb; 6. The maps of international law: perceptions of nature in the classification of territory beyond the state Karin Mickelson; 7. Denaturalising the concept of territory in international law Cait Storr; 8. Who do we think we are? Human rights in a time of ecological change Usha Natarajan; 9. Law, labour and landscape in a just transition Adrian A. Smith and Dayna Nadine Scott; Part III. Alternatives and Remakings: 10. Three enclosures of international law: commoning premises, processes and aims Darina Petrova and Tomaso Ferrando; 11. The mythic environment: ecocosmology and narrative remakings of environmental consciousness Kishan Khoday; 12. Law and politics of the human/nature: exploring the foundations and institutions of the 'rights of nature' Roger Merino; 13. Narrating nature: climate imaginaries in international law Kathleen Birrell; 14. Inter-nation relationships and the natural world as relation Irene Watson; Conclusion: Remaking International Law Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm.

'Against the backdrop of the intensifying and life-threatening ecological crisis, this pathbreaking volume seeks to challenge and reconfigure the assumptions that inform international law. Among other things, it underscores the need to reform global capitalism with its focus on commodification and subordination of nature. A must-read volume for all students of international law.' B. S. Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O. P. Jindal Global University