Chapter 6 Ordering Human-Other Relationships International Humanitarian Law and Ecologies of Armed Conflicts in the Anthropocene

• Main Author: Arvidsson, Matilda (auth)
• Other Authors: Sjöstedt, Britta (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: International law; Environment law; Energy & natural resources law; History of Western philosophy; Globalization; humanitarianism, armed conflict, artificial intelligence, posthuman legal scholarship, posthuman ecology monochrome wooden sculptures, remote cultures, formalist aesthetics, contextualist aesthetics, vertical bilateral symmetry, split representation, aesthetic status
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This chapter analyses the international humanitarian legal ordering of human and other relationships during armed conflict and disaster by looking at two examples, namely the 'natural' environment and human-scientific constructed AI-powered swarms of drones. Drawing on these examples, as well as post-anthropocentric and posthuman legal scholarship, the authors argue that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) has some potential in developing in a post-anthropocentric direction, specifically in reorienting its focus from armed conflicts to violent outbursts by making use of the Deleuze-Guattarian notion of 'war-machines'. The authors argue that this will enable IHL to offer a better protection on a less anthropocentric and more inclusive and equal basis in a shared posthuman ecology. The chapter offers an overview of current legal regulations as well as a theoretical and practice-oriented outline for the development of IHL.