This book explores the failure of established institutions to challenge the categorical centrality of 'Western Man' to modernity. This failure can be linked to a fundamental tension between the tired assumptions of modernism and the urgent needs of a complex age characterized by eco-crises: a tension in which mainstream social and legal theory are, by and large, still implicated. Building on the compelling critiques emerging from ecofeminism, political economy, ethno-ecology and some strands of legal theory, this collection provides both a sustained interrogation of disembodied forms of living. And in so doing, it advocates a re-embodiment of the human, and a re-embedding of human understandings and practices in the fact of our bio-material existence.

Introduction: exploring re-embodiments Ruth Thomas-Pellicer and Vito De Lucia PART 1: Beyond modernity 1. Beyond modernism and postmodernism: the narrative of the age of re-embodiments, Arran Gare 2. What is the age of re-embodiments? Or, the victorious assertion of loci standi over the barbarism of instrumenta movendi, Ruth Thomas-Pellicer 3. Reclaiming authenticity and ethics: a critique of eurocentric disembodiment and ecofeminist vision of re-embodiment, Madronna Holden PART 2: The sacred dimension 4. Towards a deconstruction of leadership and cosmology: the re-embodiment of the sacred, Ali Young 5. From enlightenment to enchantment: changing the question, Patrick Curry 6. (Re)embodying which body? Philosophical, cross-cultural and personal reflections on corporeality, Sian Sullivan 7. The knowing body: eco-paganism as an embodying practice, Adrian Harris PART 3: The legal dimension 8. Re-embodying Law: transversal ecology and the commons, Vito de Lucia 9. Graffiti artists and guerrilla gardeners: challenging our understandings of Property Law, Sue Farran 10. Autonomous legal persons and interconnected ecosystems: an 'Ecological' Self towards the age of re-embodiment, Alessandro Pelizzon and Gabrielle O'Shannessy 11. Beyond legal facts and discourses: towards a social-ecological production of the legal, Margherita Pieraccini Index