International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
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Cris van Eijk
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These attempts involve a legal definitionalism that I don’t feel is particularly justified at law, or very queer.
Why is law the ideal tool to define eg ‘woman’? What does definition do? Consider that eg environmental law & space law both exist w/o legal definitions of ‘environment’ or ‘space’.
Shoutout to the definition of ‘tree’ in Bullock v Secretary for Environment [1980] 1 EGLR 140:
“anything which ordinarily one would call a tree is a ‘tree’.”
So it is *possible*!!
The politics of definition are not trivial, especially for queer and otherwise marginalised people. But even in general, this is a political issue.
People are still talking about Pluto, aka a shift 20yrs ago from one kind of definition of ‘planet’ to another. And that wasn’t defining *people*.
On this #InternationalArchivesWeek I'd like to repost this absolute gem by the @bucksarchives.bsky.social!
Cris van Eijk
Feminist scholarship has long critiqued the sex/gender distinction (wherein ‘sex’ is taken to be the biological truth of someone’s identity) as sexist, given the way it reduces women to their bodily parts and functions and
Cris van Eijk
Cris van Eijk
To be clear, *international* environmental law lacks a definition of environment.
UK environmental law has tons and tons of definitions of environment, depending on your use, context, zodiac sign, & phase of the moon. 16 additional definitions have proliferated since the start of this sentence.
There is a deep, dark irony to this president, this government, and this Republican Party furiously wielding the might of the state against 'sex-rejecting'. The feminist case for protecting trans rights has never been clearer.
There is a deep, dark irony to this president, this government, and this Republican Party furiously wielding the might of the state against 'sex-rejecting'. The feminist case for protecting trans rights has never been clearer.
