{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Death and Law","title":"Non-Anthropocentric Death","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3668,"description":"Abstract Oxford dictionary defines anthropocentrism as a worldview that sees humans as the source of all value. As the concept of value itself is a human creation, nature has value merely as a means to the ends of human beings. As a result, legal framework evolved to legitimize and promote the view of nature as an object  - as something to be exploited, dominated and controlled. In this episode, we aim to challenge this narrative and explore the boundaries and limitation of human-centred understandings of death on how we perceive loss, extinction, or degradation in non-human beings and entities such as dead forests, extinct species, or contaminated rivers.Dr Saskia Vermeylen, a Reader at Law School, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Dr Arnar Árnason, a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, and Dr Nevena Jevremović, discuss intellectual history that shaped the human relationship with nature as reflected in law, alternative ways of conceptualising that relationship (such as rights of nature and Earth Jurisprudence), and the implications such alternatives may have in challenging the legal framework in this to recognise non-human centred concepts of death.Death & Law - Interdisciplinary Explorations | School of Law | The University of Aberdeen Biographies Dr Saskia VermeylenDr Saskia Vermeylen is a Reader at the Law School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and a legal phenomenologist with over 20 years of experience working alongside Indigenous communities in Southern Africa. Saskia’s research explores law through a phenomenological and legal pluralist lens, focusing on themes of land and belonging which she studies through the lens of legal pluralism, Levinasian studies, and more recently visual anthropology. Saskia's work also explores the embodied dimensions of law through movement and performative arts. This research also intersects with Africanfuturism, Black Studies, and science fiction, and seeks to expanding the scope of legal...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HHerh05IkZJNlcuxv0kJMzwfkCDYJ69HSYa7C1zluaE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNWIy/YjczYmFiMmZkYmRm/MTI4YjIxZmUxODdi/YTFjOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}