Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Acronym: EXC 3039
Start date : 01.01.2026
End date : 31.12.2026
Website: https://www.transforming-human-rights.fau.de/en/research-projects/
This project investigates how environmental human rights are being articulated, contested, and transformed across different regional human rights systems in the contexts of the escalating planetary environmental crisis and increasingly fragmented economic globalisation. While international and regional legal regimes have increasingly recognised environmental rights, such recognition remains uneven, fragmented, and often inattentive to the relational ontologies and temporalities that underpin indigenous knowledge systems. By focusing on comparative approaches between the African, Inter-American and European human rights systems, this research will analyse how environmental human rights frameworks intersect with indigenous epistemologies and how such intersections can reconfigure legal understandings of responsibility, temporality, and relationality in a period marked by planetary environmental crises, fragmented economic globalisation and structural changes mediated by and through time. Through a combination of decolonial comparative legal analysis, ethnographic engagement, and critical interdisciplinary theorisation, the project seeks to advance conceptual and practical pathways for integrating indigenous knowledge systems into human rights practice, thereby contributing to more just and sustainable climate governance.