The Amazon of Rights project explores how eco-centric normativity interacts with social realities in the Amazon River system, a critical ecosystem of global importance. Using comparative law and visual ethnographic methods, particularly documentary film, as socio-legal research tools, the project examines the legal status of the Amazon River as a subject and object of rights across different jurisdictions. It investigates how eco-centric norms shape and are shaped by the social practices and legal imaginations of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, activists, and legal practitioners.
While Rights of Nature have been celebrated as a new eco-centric legal paradigm rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, local variations in normative understandings and practices remain underexplored. The project aims to capture this plurality of eco-centric normative orders, both within state-recognized frameworks like constitutions and case law, and in non-state, community-based practices that involve more-than-human entities.