What Is at Stake? The Ontological Dimension of Environmental Conflicts

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Acknowledgments

We appreciate the tenacity of the team of authors, reviewers, and editors who were involved in the production of this special issue. We are especially indebted to Mario Blaser for his comments. Moreover, we thank the participants of the “Knowledge Lab: Critical Perspectives on Rights of Nature in South -North Dialogue” for their constructive and encouraging feedback on a previous draft of this introduction. We also thank Mariana Contreras, Lina Weber, and Adrian Zmelty for their assistance with this article.

Correction Statement

This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.

Notes

1 Other scholars identify a limited number of ontologies. For example, Descola (2013) outlines four possible ontologies: animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism. See also: Holbraad et al. (2014) and Nadasdy (2021).

2 Because of a technical mistake this article has been published in volume 36, 2023 (ADD correction notice).

3 Because of a technical mistake this article has been published in volume 36, 2023 (ADD correction notice).

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Funding

This introductory article was not funded by a specific project; rather, it is the shared effort of the three listed authors. Flemmer works on the project “The Transformative Potential of Rights of Nature?” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Hein’s activities were partly funded by his DenkRaum Fellowship from Kiel University (2021–2023).