Editorial: Frames and contestations: environment, climate change and the construction of in/justice

Abstract

Frames matter. They bring into view, interpret and – in a significant sense materialize – bring into mattering – a set of assumptions, interpretations and practices of circumscription that shape (and interact with), as Gitlin puts it, ‘what exists, what happens and what matters’.1 Moreover, frames matter for law. They determine the conditions under which problems are apprehended by law, and thus can influence the assertion of authority, jurisdiction and institutional responsibility over particular issues.2Frames are central to this issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment