Chapter 9 Becoming Common – Ecological Resistance, Refusal, Reparation
This chapter thinks through international law and posthuman theory by way of an example of ‘posthumanist commoning’. It explores the posthumanist and the commoning dimensions of the legal and political collective actions at hand. It does so by telling the story of the ‘insurgent lake’ of Rome –...
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| description | This chapter thinks through international law and
posthuman theory by way of an example of ‘posthumanist
commoning’. It explores the posthumanist and the
commoning dimensions of the legal and political collective
actions at hand. It does so by telling the story of the
‘insurgent lake’ of Rome – the ‘lago bullicante’. Bullicante
is an archaic Italian term that signifies both ‘to boil’
(bollire) and ‘to get agitated’ (agitarsi). The ‘lake that boils
and gets agitated’ refers to the artificial/natural lake that
was accidentally created in 1992, when an underground
parking lot was illegally constructed and inadvertently hit
an aquifer, thereby flooding the construction site and
nearby area, creating a one-hectare large lake in the heart
of the city. With the lake, an insurgent political subjectivity
emerged to resist and care for its preservation. Both the
subjectivity and the struggle are articulated and practiced
in non-liberal, non-individualistic, and in-human (or more
and less than ‘human’) terms, thereby giving rise to a
distinctive mode of ‘becoming common’. Drawing on the
lago bullicante, I argue that this mode of ‘posthumanist
commoning’ enacts particular practices of ecological
resistance, refusal, and reparation. The transversal
alliances forged within networks of transnational resisting
collectives help exploring how posthuman theory can
inform international law. It does so by availing methods of
reconfiguring the categories of the human, the land, and
its living ecology, while also revealing critical blind-spots
and methodological/conceptual limitations of both
posthuman theory and international law. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1322422025-06-24T06:57:51Z Chapter 9 Becoming Common – Ecological Resistance, Refusal, Reparation Petersmann, Marie flat ontology; political economy; law of the sea; posthuman feminism; environmental law; Nonhumans; Technology; colonialism This chapter thinks through international law and posthuman theory by way of an example of ‘posthumanist commoning’. It explores the posthumanist and the commoning dimensions of the legal and political collective actions at hand. It does so by telling the story of the ‘insurgent lake’ of Rome – the ‘lago bullicante’. Bullicante is an archaic Italian term that signifies both ‘to boil’ (bollire) and ‘to get agitated’ (agitarsi). The ‘lake that boils and gets agitated’ refers to the artificial/natural lake that was accidentally created in 1992, when an underground parking lot was illegally constructed and inadvertently hit an aquifer, thereby flooding the construction site and nearby area, creating a one-hectare large lake in the heart of the city. With the lake, an insurgent political subjectivity emerged to resist and care for its preservation. Both the subjectivity and the struggle are articulated and practiced in non-liberal, non-individualistic, and in-human (or more and less than ‘human’) terms, thereby giving rise to a distinctive mode of ‘becoming common’. Drawing on the lago bullicante, I argue that this mode of ‘posthumanist commoning’ enacts particular practices of ecological resistance, refusal, and reparation. The transversal alliances forged within networks of transnational resisting collectives help exploring how posthuman theory can inform international law. It does so by availing methods of reconfiguring the categories of the human, the land, and its living ecology, while also revealing critical blind-spots and methodological/conceptual limitations of both posthuman theory and international law. 2024-01-03T04:04:13Z 2024-01-03T04:04:13Z 2024-01-02T09:21:04Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86353 9781032658025 9781032044040 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132242 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86353/1/9781032658032_10.4324_9781032658032-13.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86353/1/9781032658032_10.4324_9781032658032-13.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86353/1/9781032658032_10.4324_9781032658032-13.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86353/1/9781032658032_10.4324_9781032658032-13.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781032658032-13 10.4324/9781032658032-13 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 International Law and Posthuman Theory London School of Economics and Political Science 7686d2e3-7664-45eb-84d6-20eb8c4e1afa 9781032658025 9781032044040 Routledge 23 open access |
| spellingShingle | flat ontology; political economy; law of the sea; posthuman feminism; environmental law; Nonhumans; Technology; colonialism Petersmann, Marie Chapter 9 Becoming Common – Ecological Resistance, Refusal, Reparation |
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| topic | flat ontology; political economy; law of the sea; posthuman feminism; environmental law; Nonhumans; Technology; colonialism |
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