ABSTRACT
Environmental law is looking for its identity in an empty ecology, one with neither common language between its parts, nor a home about which to talk. The task of a critical environmental law is to work along its connection with ecology, indeed within this open ecology of disciplinary and ontological fluidity, and construct a new language in order to communicate about this new home. It is not coincidental that environmental law is the most readily available means to drag law outside its linguistic ivory tower and land it on the material, the social, the corporeal, the gendered, the spatial, the animal, the molecular. These are inhabitants of the new home for environmental law: no longer based on distinction conceptual/material, environmental law becomes one with its ecology, one gesture amongst so many others, trying both to define itself and carry on with its job of protecting its home. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts in this book.
