Workshops > Environmental justice, resources and territories in the light of constitutional processesENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, RESOURCES AND TERRITORIES IN THE LIGHT OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES Wednesday, June 14 from 9h00 to 11h00 Palais Hirsch, Salle des colloques Organization: Cécile Faliès (PRODIG - Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne), Audrey Sérandour (CRESAT - Université Haute Alsace) and Solène Rey-Coquais (PRODIG - Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne) Proposition At the crossroads of legal geography studies, environmental justice movements and comparative constitutionalism, this workshop will analyse the links between national constitutional arrangements and environmental conflictualities in both common law countries (USA, Canada) and civil law countries (Central and South America). The workshop will explore (1) the place of the environment and productive territories in national constitutions, (2) the way in which these tend to influence development paradigms - especially when they are based on commodity extraction, and (3) the mobilization of constitutional texts by citizens and the incorporation of environmental issues in the making of constitutions. The workshop will also seek to understand the place of legal circulations, legal transfers (Spencer, 2020) between North and South and global paradigms in new constitutional texts. The expected contributions could take the form of constitutional texts' analyses centred on the environmental issues they raise; presentations addressing the "constitutional moments" (Ackermann, 1991) of the 21st century in the Americas; or case studies of citizen mobilisations around localised environmental issues. Two main objectives are thus sought. The first is to compare the way in which constitutions - the highest rules in the legal order - contribute to defining an ontology of territories and natural resources likely to engender different degrees and types of conflict. The second is to think about the methodologies through which the links between territorialized situations, research fields and legal texts can be thought. This workshop aims to contribute to the methodologies of legal geography through constitutional matters, which are still little addressed today. ACKERMAN Bruce (1991), We the People: Foundations, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 369 pages. Speakers |
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