Personhood in the Age of Biolegality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personhood in the Age of Biolegality write by Marc de Leeuw. This book was released on 2019-11-18. Personhood in the Age of Biolegality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.
Biolegality
Biolegality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biolegality write by Sonja van Wichelen. This book was released on . Biolegality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
EcoLaw
EcoLaw - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EcoLaw write by Margaret Davies. This book was released on 2022-05-01. EcoLaw available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book re-imagines law as ecolaw. The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else – at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos – has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. Law is part of the material ‘everything’ that is connected to everything else. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it is after all possible to think of law as ‘natural’ – as embedded in and emergent from a normative biophysical nature. The book proposes that there exists a natural nomos: animals, plants, and Earth systems that produce their own values and norms from which human norms and laws emerge. This book, then, proposes a new way to understand law, and pursues specific arguments to demonstrate the feasibility of law as ecolaw. Drawing inspiration from current trends in the post-humanities, socioecological thought, and developments across the natural sciences in their specific intersections with humanities and social science disciplines, this book will appeal both to legal theorists and to others with interests in these areas.
Non-Human Rights
Non-Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Human Rights write by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa. This book was released on 2024-04-12. Non-Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Non-human entities, including animals, mountains, rainforests, eco-systems, AI, and robots, are beginning to be considered the subjects of rights in different parts of the world. This innovative book provides a critical outlook on this emerging trend at the crossroad of two of the main concerns of the 21st century: climate change and automation.
We, Other Utopians
We, Other Utopians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We, Other Utopians write by Eva Šlesingerová. This book was released on 2021-12-30. We, Other Utopians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of life and the body in general, it conceptually and analytically works with various approaches to engineered life and embodiments from the perspective of anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies. Second, it presents an analysis of artificial life, and biotechnological embodiments on concrete technologies – genome editing, recombinant DNA, and biological computing. The book explores the theme of genome editing based on ethnographic research conducted at a biochemical laboratory in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork was carried out from 2017 to 2019, mainly in a lab focusing on DNA damages and genomic risk of complex diseases or genetic vulnerabilities like breast cancer, infertility, and ageing. Recombinant DNA is understood here as the exchange of DNA strands to produce and design new nucleotide sequence arrangements to heal or enhance human bodies and health in the future. The book analyzes various economies of hope, hype, expectations, politics, and poetics of false promises and better or worse predictions from the point of view of sociology, anthropology, and science and technology studies.
