Abstract
In this chapter, the authors, who are members of a multidisciplinary collective of artists, activists, social scientists, and legal practitioners, elaborate and reflect on artistic research collaborations that they have co-developed to respond to environmental harms and ecocide. Ranging from “restorative trials” for ecocide and “walking-with” rivers repair practices, the collaborations led by environmental artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia rest on the pillars of ecocide recognition, rights of Nature, guardian of Nature, climate grief, restorative justice, and artistic and sensorial practices. Meeting each other on the terrain of imagination the authors co-cultivate their right, duty, and power to imagine different ways of living together with the Earth, with other humans and with more-than humans, ways which are more just and ethical.
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See Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature website garn.org for the most updated state of the art.
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Wastefulness, squandering, or a lack of moderation.
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See https://www.psycom.net/anxiety/coping-climate-grief-anxiety (last accessed 28 January 2022).
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The team included experts like lawyers Hendrik Schoukens and Juan Auz, dramaturge Ingrid Vranken, performer/artist Caroline Daish, sound designer Joao Bento, light designer Vinny Jones, and video maker Mark Požlep.
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Pali, B. et al. (2022). The Art of Repair: Bridging Artistic and Restorative Responses to Environmental Harm and Ecocide. In: Pali, B., Forsyth, M., Tepper, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04223-2_16
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