ABSTRACT The drivers of mass extinction today are societal processes (including economic and legal systems) inherited from European imperialism and embedded in the international state system. Their path dependencies demand that we engage in decolonial work. This work centrally involves countering land abstraction – the rendering instrumental of lands, waters, and skies for the sake of national territory, capitalist profit, or industrial resource use. Much Indigenous law is centred on moral relations with lands, internalising ‘ecological reflexivity’ within Indigenous society in highly articulated ways not present in the social memory of nation states. Prudential reasons thus support decolonising Indigenous lands, making room for the sovereignty and jurisdiction of Indigenous law. Such reasons are not exclusive but rather add to already evident reasons of justice in support of Indigenous decolonisation which have for some time been urgent calls for concern. This paper provides new reasoning for decolonisation concerning the practical relations between the disestablishment of our inherited colonial order and the curtailment of now alarming rates of extinction threatening the current order of life on this Earth.

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面对大规模灭绝，对土地和法律进行非殖民化是谨慎的做法：关于尊重管辖权的哲学论文

摘要当今大规模灭绝的驱动因素是从欧洲帝国主义继承并嵌入国际国家体系的社会进程（包括经济和法律制度）。他们的路径依赖要求我们从事非殖民化工作。这项工作主要涉及反对土地抽象——为了国家领土、资本主义利润或工业资源利用而利用土地、水域和天空。许多土著法律以与土地的道德关系为中心，以民族国家的社会记忆中不存在的高度清晰的方式将土著社会的“生态反射性”内化。因此，审慎的理由支持对土著土地进行非殖民化，为土著法律的主权和管辖权腾出空间。这些理由不是排他性的，而是增加了已经明显的支持土著非殖民化的正义理由，这些理由在一段时间内一直是迫切需要关注的问题。本文为非殖民化提供了新的推理，涉及我们继承的殖民秩序的瓦解与威胁地球上当前生命秩序的现在令人震惊的灭绝率的减少之间的实际关系。