Rights
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On granting rights to apes and maybe all vertebrates:
Cavalieri, Paola. The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Stucki, Saskia. One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene. Cham: Springer, 2023.
Deckha, Maneesha. ‘Animal Justice, Cultural Justice: A Posthumanist Response to Cultural Rights in Animals’. Journal of Animal Law and Ethics 2 (2007): 189–230.
Deckha, Maneesha. Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Kymlicka, Will. ‘Membership Rights for Animals’. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 91 (2022): 213–44. https://doi.org/10/gshcg8.
Deninitions
Cf. ghehds:
"Rights, it is argued, have crucially served to entrench separation between human and non- human beings in a competitive and adversarial legal and political system. I offer ‘ghehds’, as a concept befitting the Symbiocene, a more life-inclusive, descriptive ethical approach to all interspecies relationships. Ghehds (from the root ghehd, to unite, with etymological connections to modern words such as: to gather, together and good) will help bring about the extinction of rights and its applications to nature. Instead of a hierarchy of competing rights, assuming autonomous individuals or entities in a contested domain, ghehds respect entitlements of coalescence, vagility, passage, movement and flow within organically and symbiotically unified wholes. Rights assume division, competition and exclusion; ghehds assume unity, cooperation and inclusion."
Albrecht, Glenn. “The Extinction of Rights and the Extantion of Ghehds.” Griffith Law Review 29, no. 4 (2020): 513–33. https://doi.org/10/g8zfjd.
Origin of Rights
Rights come from wrongs. An experiential approach to the origin of rights.
Dershowitz, Alan M. Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Normative responses to experiences of (institutionalised or systematic) oppression.
Winston, Morton. ‘Human Rights as Moral Rebellion and Social Construction’. Journal of Human Rights 6, no. 3 (2007): 279–305. https://doi.org/10/bhrqts.
Protecting weak and vulnerable as an emancipatory force against the abuse of power.
Gearty, Conor. ‘Do Human Rights Help or Hinder Environmental Protection?’ Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 1, no. 1 (2010): 7–22. https://doi.org/10/dsqw52.
The Expansion of Human Rights
Rights of Nature
Boyd, David R. The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World. Toronto: ECW Press, 2017.
Daniel P. Corrigan and Markku Oksanen, eds., Rights of Nature: A Re-Examination (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene (Cham: Springer, 2023).
Visa A. J. Kurki, A Theory of Legal Personhood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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