Eagle and Condor: How Ecuador Translated Indigenous Cosmology Into Constitutional Law
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In 2008 Ecuador became the first country in history to grant constitutional rights to nature. Rivers, forests, and ecosystems were no longer treated solely as resources to be managed, but as living entities with rights of their own.
For some it was a legal innovation. For others it was the return of a worldview that had survived for centuries outside the institutions of the modern state.
The question is how an Indigenous understanding of the world was translated into the language of courts, laws
For some it was a legal innovation. For others it was the return of a worldview that had survived for centuries outside the institutions of the modern state.
The question is how an Indigenous understanding of the world was translated into the language of courts, laws
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