Abstract
Abstract While narrative is a much-used term in environmental law scholarship, it is often used rather indiscriminately and interchangeably with other terms such as framing and discourse. The current article sets out to examine the various ways in which narrative features in the existing literature with a view to encouraging more critical and reflective usage. It also advocates for narrative, both to connect with the marginalised and to inject passion and emotion into environmental law – elements that can easily be lost in a discipline heavy with legislation and case law turning on fine aspects of legal doctrine. However, in the end it argues the need for a careful balance, with narrative and emotion playing a part, but not stealing the show.
Highlights
The aim of the current article is to explore the role that narrative plays in environmental law
It advocates for narrative, both to connect with the marginalised and to inject passion and emotion into environmental law – elements that can be lost in a discipline heavy with legislation and case law turning on fine aspects of legal doctrine
INTERNAL NARRATIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Some types of narratives found in environmental law are internal to the subject itself and help to give it shape. This is not so much environmental law as a successional story, considered earlier, but rather the narrative elements that assist with its coherence, whether as a body of law or as an academic discipline
Summary
The aim of the current article is to explore the role that narrative plays in environmental law. It is in part a novel survey of the literature in environmental law where narrative approaches have been used, to try to unpick different senses of the term and contexts in which it can be found (the ‘nature of tales’ part of the article title).
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