Aesthetics and environmental law: valuing Tasmania’s ‘ordinary’ nature

Richardson, Benjamin J.

doi:10.1080/10383441.2018.1477364

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“…Between 2014 and 2018, the Species Hotels project was developed in response to acute environmental challenges of the Midlands region, one of the most threatened landscapes in lutruwita/Tasmania and now recognized as a “biodiversity hotspot” (Richardson, 2018). In the 200-year period following European invasion and colonization, more than 80% of vegetation in the Midlands has been transformed to agricultural pasture (Badham et al, 2021).…”

Section: Rethinking Creative Educational Experience Through Place-bas...mentioning

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Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

Rousell¹,

Harris²,

Wise

et al. 2022

Review of Research in Education

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This chapter explores the urgent relevance of posthumanist theory and practice for democratizing creative educational experiences in 21st-century schools, universities, and informal learning environments. Posthumanism challenges the myopic centering of the human in creative education in an age of climate change, artificial intelligence, and zoonotic disease, where nonhuman agencies are intricately imbricated in human cultures and lives. Using a cartographic methodology, the chapter critically maps key theories and debates in posthumanist creativity studies across four substantive fields of inquiry: (a) process philosophy, (b) affect studies, (c) place-based education, and (d) creative ecology. Drawing links between theoretical concepts and practical examples of creative experience across formal and informal education contexts, the chapter scopes an alternative agenda for critical studies of creativity in light of the posthuman turn.

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Section: Rethinking Creative Educational Experience Through Place-bas...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

Rousell¹,

Harris²,

Wise

et al. 2022

Review of Research in Education

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“…His account nevertheless assists in reading the 30 Friends of Leadbeater's Possum Inc. v. VicForests (No 4) [2020] FCA 704, at [41] (hereafter, Friends of Leadbeater's). 31 Aesthetic values appear in law in various international and domestic areas of environmental, heritage, and planning law: Palmer (2017); Richardson (2018). For critique of the aesthetics of Earth jurisprudence, see Matthews (2019).…”

Section: Uncanny Emblems Of Judgment: Possum Place and Extinctionmentioning

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A Sense of Place with Landmark Judgments: Anthropogenic Justice, Wildlife Extinction, and Climate Change

Rush

2022

AsianJLS

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It will be familiar to many that the environmental emergency of our times generates a number of difficulties for our thinking of law and society. It is argued in this essay that the languages of place-making make some sense of these predicaments. The essay proceeds through the close reading of an Extinction Rebellion protest and two landmark judgments. The protests, and their policing, are keyed to specific places and their atmospheres. A first judgment concerns the destruction of habitat and the extinction of native wildlife species; a second concerns the impact of coal mining on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. A sense of place emerges with the aesthetic reason of judgment. The emblems and topics of legal speech, it is argued, give form and technique to the writing of place. A renewed jurisprudence of topography makes legible the meeting places of law and the environmental emergency.

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“…Thirdly, attempting to codify beauty carries the risk of stratifying nature into 'special' versus 'ordinary' categories, to the potential detriment of the latter. 140 The aesthetic values that tend to captivate us most are frequently associated with 'specialness' -Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon, the Pyramids of Giza. The World Heritage Convention and its domestic law variants evoke that sentiment, and we can hardly deter societies who wish to protect their most esteemed natural and cultural heritage.…”

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Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law?

Richardson¹,

Barritt²,

Bowman³

2018

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Abstract:This article investigates whether beauty can be a global language to inform environmental governance, such as by providing shared values and collaborative approaches across and within different cultures. Because art mediates how many people experience environmental aesthetics, such as through photography and music, this enquiry extends to the arts. As is the case for other aesthetic values, beauty is ultimately about relationships and ways of knowing our environment, and the law can best engage with such values through interpretive guidance and process participatory decision making. Prescriptive codification of beauty 'standards' is generally not a realistic goal for lawmakers. The article enriches our understanding of how aesthetics can contribute to human beings' emotional empathy and ethical commitment to environmental stewardship, but also identifies some conceptual and methodological difficulties that militate against beauty being a lingua franca for environmental law.

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Aesthetics and environmental law: valuing Tasmania’s ‘ordinary’ nature

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

A Sense of Place with Landmark Judgments: Anthropogenic Justice, Wildlife Extinction, and Climate Change

Beauty: ALingua Francafor Environmental Law?

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