RIFS Potsdam 29d ago

We find ourselves at a threshold of what many describe as a legal awakening, where rivers, forests, and more-than-human beings in the Amazon are increasingly recognized as subjects of rights. This shift marks the gradual intrusion of wildness into human law. In this performed lecture, Dr. Maria Cecilia Oliveira, along with the EcoPol Research Group (RIFS Potsdam), follows the flow of the Amazon River from the Andes to the Atlantic, exploring the “rights of nature” movement through an ecofeminist and anti-authoritarian lens. Moving beyond legal texts, she focuses on the sensory, affective, and lived dimensions of how these rights are experienced and enacted. Drawing on audiovisual methods from documentary filmmaking, the lecture invites the audience into a sensory encounter with law in the making. An “outlaw jurisprudence” shaped through everyday life, sonority, perception, and collective practice. Find out more: https://www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/research-group/ecopolitical-transformations