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Living Forest Constitutionalism

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An ethnography of Indigenous jurisprudence in the Ecuadorian Amazon that rethinks constitutionalism through the Living Forest.
  • 27 October 2026
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If nature was already recognised as a subject of rights in Ecuador’s Constitution, why did the Kichwa People of Sarayaku proclaim their territory the Living Forest (Kawsak Sacha) – a living and conscious being with rights of its own? Drawing on five years of accompanied legal ethnography in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Jenny García Ruales traces this question through Indigenous jurisprudence and the more-than-human normativities of the Living Forest. She develops Living Forest Constitutionalism, a constitutional theory that reimagines the foundations of constitutionalism from the jurisprudence of the Living Forest. An essential resource for scholars and readers seeking to rethink where constitutions come from, who makes law, and what it means to defend life.
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Price: $72.00
Pages: 400
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Culture and Social Practice
Publication Date: 27 October 2026
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837682502
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
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Jenny García Ruales (Dr.) grew up between the Ecuadorian Coast, the Andes, and the Amazon. She is a legal anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of rights of nature, their intercultural translation, constitutional anthropology, indigenous own law, more-than-human legal worlds, and cosmomaterialities, with a particular focus on Amazonia.