Human rights to the city: Urban ecologies and Indigenous justice
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Carlson, Anna
Butler, Chris
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May, James R
Daly, Erin
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In this chapter, we explore ideas of human rights and environmental justice in Australian cities. We draw on three intersecting discourses of urban justice: the entangled, messy more-than-human theory, Indigenous political theories of justice and land rights, and the spatial politics of the right to the city. We bring together these bodies of work to interrogate relationships between people and cities, ‘the environment’ and human rights. We argue that these theories of justice enable us to disrupt the dominant liberal model of human rights, and muddle traditional legal understandings of what and where ‘the environment’ is and how it might be protected or sustained. We argue that meaningful conceptions of urban justice require lived recognition of our entanglements with place, people and the more-than-human. This recognition in turn might open up space for conceptions of urban justice beyond the contained, liberal subject imagined in human rights discourse and the contained, enclosed place imagined in colonial environmental law.
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Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography
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Law in context not elsewhere classified
Urban geography
Human rights and justice issues (excl. law)
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Osborne, N; Carlson, A; Butler, C, Human rights to the city: Urban ecologies and Indigenous justice, Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography, 2019, pp. 436-446