Demanding a Radical Constitution

Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participation in Chile's 2022 Reform Efforts
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-75689-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew on decades of diverse environmental, political, Indigenous, and community organizing and contained concepts and goals at the forefront of global efforts to create more just and equitable political systems, healthier living environments, and more resilient ecosystems. Drawing on research by faculty and students from the USA and Chile, chapters within this book address political memory, Indigenous representation, public participation, the Rights of Nature, environmental law, mining conflicts, natural commons, knowledge systems, and rural education. This book highlights important contributions from Chile’s 2022 reform efforts for diverse global responses to the erosion of democracy, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barandiaran, Javiera

Partridge, Tristan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Demanding a Radical Constitution (Javiera Barandiaran).- Chapter 2. Indigenous representation: How recognition, reciprocity, and reserved seats shaped the constitutional convention (Tristan Partridge).- Chapter 3. Public participation in constitutional reform: the challenges of Chile's experiments in expanding citizen involvement (Maite Salazar).- Chapter 4. Rights of Nature in an 'Eco-Constitution': needs, goals, and hopes for a paradigm change in environmental governance (Javiera Barandiaran).- Chapter 5. An Ombudsman for Nature: Putting environmental protection into practice within an ‘EcoConstitution’ (Mia Wercinski).- Chapter 6. Managing mining: New environmental contracts in light of loss, inequality, and climate change (Katie Lessmeier).- Chapter 7. Re-thinking property and pollution: Conserving the Night Sky as Natural Commons (Isabella Millet).- Chapter 8. Knowledge systems: Redefining Science and Bioethics for the Common Good (Camila Torralbo & Maite Salazar).- Chapter 9. Rural education, agroecology, and environmental know-how (Lucas Bricca).

Über Autor(innen)

Javiera Barandiaran is Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. She is the author of  (2018),  (2021) and co-author of  (2022).

Tristan Partridge is Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and research coordinator at the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. He is the author of  (2024),  (Palgrave, 2022) and photographer for (2024).