The rights of nature, new forms of citizenship and the Good Life. Echoes of the Constitución de Montecristi in Ecuador

2009. Article written for Critical Currents No. 6, october, Occasional
Paper Series. Edited by Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Edgardo Lander
and Tadzio Mueller. pp. 108-112


Contours of Climate. Justice Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politicsEvery constitution synthesises a historical moment. Crystallised in every constitution is an accumulation of social processes. And in every constitution a certain way of under standing life takes shape. And yet, a constitution does not make a society. It is society that produces a constitution and adopts it like a roadmap. Besides, a constitution must be more than merely the result of an exercise.

 

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