The Ecological Citizen: Confronting human supremacy
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Rewilding as reparative and restitutive justice
The Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 2 2025: epub-129-1 to 6
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Abstract
This article argues that rewilding should be conceptualized as reparative and restitutive justice for the harm inflicted upon the more-than-human world by human supremacy. Extending the framework of social justice to ecological ethics will help to address the exploitation of ecosystems and other-than-humans. Rewilding must go beyond biodiversity restoration, and aim to dismantle human hegemony, restore autonomy to ecosystems and thus enable true multispecies coexistence.
Keywords
Earth jurisprudence, Ecological restoration, Rewilding, Species reintroductions
