MECHANISMS OF PROTECTION : On Rights of Nature with Marjetica Potrč and Sabina Rodrígues Van der Hammen
The School of Feral Grounds released its fifth podcast episode!
Following the theme of mechanisms of protection, this episode explores how we can safeguard nature’s inherent right to exist and flourish, focusing on the legal framework of the Rights of Nature and complementary approaches that shield ecosystems from exploitation. The conversation unfolds within a vibrant landscape of translocal action, from Ecuador’s constitutional recognition of Pachamama as a legal subject to Slovenian Waters Act referendum, raising the question of which concepts can mobilize imagination and take root in practice.
Listen to the episode here.
Read more about this episode here.
The School of Feral Grounds situates cultural practices in the world in which capital-driven economies act as geological forces, terraforming the earth into a place where climate change, social inequality, and species extinction call for urgent collective action. The school acts as a forum for interchange, where reflections, concepts, case studies, and generative exercises invite participants to position urban ecologies within the field of culture by interlinking common notions of the urban and ecology. To engage with the feral grounds of 21st century cities we take a close look at the practices between the development of neoliberal cities and nature’s capacity to reclaim their cracks.
Originally produced for Future DiverCities partners and their local coalitions to empower eco-social engagement with neglected cityscapes.
