Environmental Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings

R. Killean, 'Environmental Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings;, in B. Pali and M. Forsyth, The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming)

29 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2021

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Rachel Killean

The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law; Queen's University Belfast School of Law

Date Written: June 15, 2021

Abstract

This chapter considers the applicability of environmental restorative justice in transitional settings. Bringing critical transitional justice scholarship into dialogue with the emerging body of environmental restorative justice literature, it argues that environmental restorative justice offers a challenge to two of the transitional justice field’s limitations. First, an environmental restorative justice approach offers a challenge to transitional justice’s anthropocentrism, by creating space for the recognition and representation of other-than-human victims of conflict. Second, environmental restorative justice offers a challenge to the field’s neo-colonial tendencies, by facilitating the design of mechanisms that are more inclusive of Indigenous harms and understandings of justice. By entrenching an environmentally restorative ethos, the chapter argues that transitional justice may present one effective vehicle for rethinking relationships between diverse human communities and the natural world.

Suggested Citation

Killean, Rachel, Environmental Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings (June 15, 2021). R. Killean, 'Environmental Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings;, in B. Pali and M. Forsyth, The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3893571 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3893571

Rachel Killean (Contact Author)

The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law ( email )

New Law Building, F10
The University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia

Queen's University Belfast School of Law ( email )

School of Law
Belfast BT7 1NN, BT7 1NN
Ireland

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