Countersign

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Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law, difference, and being in common.

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What is the Matter with New Materialism?

Feat. Richard A. Lee Jr. 23 May 23 1h 11m Information

Climate Wreckage, Pagan Vitalities, and Truth

Feat. William E. Connolly 29 Mar 23 1h 4m Information

Provincializing the Anthropocene

Feat. Dipesh Chakrabarty 23 Dec 22 1h 4m Information

Corporations are Psychopaths

Feat. Joel Bakan 20 Oct 22 1h 8m Information

EcoLaw

Feat. Margaret Davies 14 Aug 22 1h 10m Information

Earthbound in the Anthropocene

Feat. Daniel Matthews 28 Jun 22 1h 8m Information

Border Mentality

Feat. Behrouz Boochani 29 May 21 36m Information
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EcoLaw

Feat. Margaret Davies 14th August 2022 1h 10m

Discussing norms derived from more-than-human bio/geo formations with Margaret Davies, author of EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature (2022). Nomos and nature are usually viewed in opposition. Here we ask, what are the norms to be derived from nature? How do they emerge and coexist?

BIO: Margaret Davies is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Australia.
Margaret is also author of five other books – Asking the Law Question (4th edition 2017), Delimiting the Law (1996), Are Persons Property (with Ngaire Naffine, 2001), Property: Meanings, Histories, Theories (2007), and Law Unlimited (2017, winner of the SLSA Theory and History Book Prize).

Margaret was a foundation staff member of the Law School at Flinders University and has been a visiting scholar at Birkbeck College, Umea University, UBC, and Victoria University of Wellington, and has held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Kent. She has been a recipient of four Australian Research Council grants, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law.

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