Ecocide, the irreputable killability of life and the biopolitical device of the exception. : New frontiers for law as obligation

Abstract

Abstract

In this essay we propose to delve into the concept of ecocide and its ethical-political implications, putting it in relation to Giorgio Agamben´s concepts of sovereignty and state of exception. The concept of exception, in the lega and philosophical tradition, refers to the scope of people´s lives and not to the damage caused to life in nature. However, starting from the assumption that there is an interdependence of human life with the life of nature, the objective of this essay is to analyze the ethical-political unfoldments to which this interdependence leads us, having as its axis the concept of ecocide. For this analysis, we propose to explore the links between ecocide and a state of exception, as two assimilated practices that reduce life to an ethical insignificance through a legal vacuum.