More Than Human Rights

Edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito

The first MOTH collective publication is an e-book with contributions from leading lawyers, scientists, philosophers, and writers from around the world who participated in the inaugural gathering of the project. Edited by the MOTH founding director, this volume discusses the philosophical, legal, and scientific foundations of the MOTH framework as well as its implications for ideas and practices in fields such as law, human rights, ecology, politics, and storytelling.

Building on the invitation of Indigenous knowledge and ecological sciences to expand our sensorial and moral horizon and see ourselves again as part of Earth’s web of life, the provocation of this book is to locate rights in the more-than-human (MOTH) world. Among the questions guiding the book are: What theoretical and legal approaches can solidify the foundations of the rights of nature? How do findings from the natural sciences, Indigenous knowledge, and other fields shed new light on the idea of the rights of nature? What types of nonhuman entities should be protected? What types of rights should they be recognized as holding? What are the lessons from existing legislation, constitutional provisions, and lawsuits that embrace this notion? More broadly, how can we conceive of “human rights without human supremacism”?

The book will launch in New York City at Canal Projects in March 2024 and in Quito at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in May 2024.

For the table of contents and more information on the contributing authors and topics that comprise this volume, please click here.