Law, Text, Culture Special Issue, "Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene" Launch

We are delighted to launch volume 28 of Law, Text, Culture on "Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene" edited by Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm. A panel of speakers - including guest editors and authors - will speak about the themes of the volume and the various contributions to it.

The volume features the following articles:

• "Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene" by Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm

• "‘Nature is of God’: Land, Money, Empire and Extraction in James Harrington’s Legal Thought 1656–60" by Martin Clark

• "Frontier Extractivism: Climate Change and Indigenous Dispossession" by Lee Godden

• "Visions of Extraction: Maps, Law and the Ocean" by Kate Jama

• "The Power of ‘Net Zero’: Seductive Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier" by Dayna Nadine Scott

• "The Case of the Impossible Mining License: Legal Rituals and ‘Responsible Mining’" by Doris Buss

• "Agrarian Extractivism, Peasant Culture and Law from Below" by Theodora Valkanou

• "Mining Sovereignties in Courts: Voicing Plural Sovereignties in Juridical Spaces" by Sakshi

• "Beyond the Extractive Imaginary: Stories of Repair from Forest Rights Agitations in India" by Arpitha Kodiveri and Danish Sheikh

This launch is supported by the International and Comparative Law Cluster at La Trobe Law School and the Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award DE240100131.