A novel way of being together? On the depoliticising effects of attributing rights to nature

The recent trend of attributing rights to nature arguably introduces a novel way ordering the relationship between humans and nonhumans. But what extent does it challenge political, legal, economic categories modernity? By analysing processes that led inclusion Mother Earth in Bolivian legal system, I explore whether how express distinct form relating environment. Using lenses juridical symmetry political conflict, argue attempts ascribe ecosystems can be read as examples hyperpoliticisation which ultimately result depoliticisation. contend bring together neutralisation conflict by extending logic nonhuman entities. Thus, far from constituting renewed being together, these reiterate aporia modern Western conceptual horizon.