Grammar of animacy could ground legal standing for other species

Evidence

A language teacher I know explained that grammar is just the way we chart relationships in language. Maybe it also reflects our relationships with each other. Maybe a grammar of animacy could lead us to whole new ways of living in the world, other species a sovereign people, a world with a democracy of species, not a tyranny of one—with moral responsibility to water and wolves, and with a legal system that recognizes the standing of other species. It’s all in the pronouns. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 204

Categorization

• XREF: The legal-standing-of-other-species idea connects to the earlier chapter’s constitution protecting only property: a direct bridge to the land-rights legal course. — connects to: Recognition of nature via shared qualities need not claim equality — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 436

Broader Connections

• Recognition of nature via shared qualities need not claim equality #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 436