Inhabiting territories in a community of life

reflections for ecological justiceFOR ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify, within the concepts of territory and community of life suggested by Indigenous peoples and ecofeminist movements, useful elements for a renewed understanding of justice, as well as for rethinking Law in order to promote an expanded democracy that embraces all forms of alterity. Based on a broad hypothetical-deductive approach and bibliographic research, the study concludes that human relationality and interdependence with other forms of life and with the planet Earth itself demand rethinking Law and implementing a democratic openness that encompasses the terrestrial community of life, seeking justice for alterity within relationality.