Mecila Working Papers n° 71 – 2024 : Theatres of the Proto-Juridical

Jörn Etzold: Theatres of the Proto-Juridical.

This paper explores peoples’ tribunals addressing ethnocide and land-grabbing involving Indigenous communities in the Americas, particularly in the context of infrastructural projects and extractivism.

It critiques legal concepts of conviviality and human rights, focusing on the right to private property, drawing on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theories about differences between Amazonian and Western societies.

The paper examines the history of Russell Tribunals and Milo Rau’s Congo Tribunal, highlighting the challenges faced when trying to judge the dispossession of former colonies’ communities.

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