Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies

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Cambridge university press

Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies : Cambridge University Press : 9781009354042 : 1009354043 : 23 May 2024 : This original book analyses and reimagines the concept of sustainable development in international law from a non-Western legal perspective. Built upon the intersection of law, politics, and history in the context of Africa, its peoples and their experiences, customary law and other legal cosmologies, this ground-breaking study applies a critical legal analysis to Africa's interaction with conceptualising and operationalising sustainable development. It proposes a turn to non-Western legal normativity as the foundational principle for reimagining sustainable development in international law. It highlights eco-legal philosophies and principles in remaking sustainable development where ecological integrity assumes a central focus in the reimagined conceptualisation and operationalisation of sustainable development. While this pionee

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