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  • English

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  • POL044000
  • SOC062000
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Keywords

  • ecological justice
  • environmental law
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • extractivism
  • more-than-human relations

    The Transformative Potential of Rights of Nature

    Perspectives on Change from Academia, Arts and Activism

    FORTHCOMING

    Contributors

    Riccarda Flemmer

    (editor)
    Junior Professor for Political Struggles in the Global South at the Institute of Political Science at University of TĂŒbingen
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4234-2864

    Riccarda Flemmer (she/her) is Junior Professor for Political Struggles in the Global South at the University of TĂŒbingen’s Institute of Political Science. Her research focuses on environmental justice, climate politics, Indigenous rights, and the Rights of Nature, with particular attention to socio-ecological conflicts and global power relations. She previously held research positions at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the University of Hamburg and Bielefeld University. She has published widely on contested norms, extractivism, and Indigenous rights, including articles in International Studies Quarterly, Third World Quarterly and the Journal of Latin American Studies. Among her recent publications are the co-edited volume Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present (Routledge 2024), the edited book Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders (Springer 2025), and contributions in English and German on the transformative potential, politics, and critiques of Rights of Nature. She is PI of the recently finished project ‘The Transformative Potential of Rights of Nature?’ (2023-2025) and the current interdisciplinary project ‘Re-Staging Climate Assemblies’ with the University of Sheffield, which explores participatory, arts-based approaches to climate governance and foregrounds diverse knowledges and modes of deliberation.

    Annette Mehlhorn

    (editor)
    Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt-UniversitÀt zu Berlin

    Annette Mehlhorn (she/her) is a researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin’s Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). She is PI in the project ‘Looking Across Worlds for Environmental Justice: Interrogating Scientifc Practices of Relating to Indigenous Knowledge’ conducted in collaboration with King’s college London and Universidad Andina SimĂłn BolĂ­var Quito. Priorly she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale) where she also completed her PhD. She has published on topics as Rights of Nature, legal pluralism and emancipatory constitutionalism. Among her recent publications are the special issue “The Magic of Rights? - Critical reflections on nature and the possibilities and limits of rights“ with Jenny GarcĂ­a Ruales and Dirk Hanschel (Sortuz: Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies 2025), several book chapter as ‘Rights of Nature - Reflections on Dialogues between Law and Anthropology’ (in Ralf Michaels et al. (ed.) Rights of Nature and Global Legal Pluralism, Mohr Siebeck 2026), ‘Rights of Nature and Multispecies Justice’ (in Helen Kopnina et al. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology 2nd edition 2025) and articles as ‘Superficial and Substantial Practices of Solidarity in Social Sciences’ (Genealogy and Critique 10(1) 2024) and ‘Rechte der Natur: von Recht, Subjekten und der Plantaren Krise’ (Zeitschrift fĂŒr Menschenrechte/ Journal for human rights 1/2024).

    Imke Horstmannshoff

    (editor)
    PhD student in the Leverhulme Trust Connected Waters doctoral programme at University of Roehampton
    https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2007-1549

    Imke Horstmannshoff (she/her) is a PhD student in the Leverhulme Trust Connected Waters doctoral programme at University of Roehampton, London. With degrees in Global and Cultural Studies, her research focuses on (movements for) socio-environmental justice, including protest practices and performativity, more-than-human governance and multispecies perspectives, and, more generally, human-nature relations in rural to urban communities. In her interdisciplinary PhD project, she collaborates with and investigates the manifold trajectories of Rights of Rivers initiatives in Europe with ethnographic approaches, grounded in the environmental humanities and anthropology. Previously, she worked as project manager and science communicator in Prof. Tobias Plieninger’s transdisciplinary research group “Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems” at University of Kassel. Imke has been working on RoN for a few years, amongst others as coordinator of Heinrich Boell Foundation’s online dossier on RoN; her publications include introductory pieces on RoN in the latter (2025) and in Springer’s Live Handbook Environmental Humanities (with Riccarda Flemmer; ed. by Evi Zemanek, Timo MĂŒller, 2026), as well as an opinion piece ‘Zwischen Wert und WĂŒrde. Finanzialisierung versus Rechte der Natur’ (in Netzwerk Rechte der Natur e.V. (ed.) Rechte der Natur. Zwischen Gesetzestext und neuem WeltverstĂ€ndnis, oekom 2025).