Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 122-142 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781000892222 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367858223 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 Jan 1 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Law and Society