Demanding a Radical Constitution

Javiera Barandiaran is Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. She is the author of Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy (2018), Lo que el Estado Neoliberal no sabe (2021) and co-author of Derechos de la Naturaleza en Chile: Argumentos para su desarrollo constitucional (2022).

Tristan Partridge is Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and research coordinator at the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. He is the author of Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum (2024), Energy and Environmental Justice: Movements, Solidarities, and Critical Connections (Palgrave, 2022) and photographer for Mingas+Solidarity (2024).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Demanding a Radical Constitution (Javiera Barandiaran).- Chapter 2. Indigenous representation: How recognition, reciprocity, and reserved seats shaped the constitutional convention (Tristan Partridge).- Chapter 3. Public participation in constitutional reform: the challenges of Chile's experiments in expanding citizen involvement (Maite Salazar).- Chapter 4. Rights of Nature in an 'Eco-Constitution': needs, goals, and hopes for a paradigm change in environmental governance (Javiera Barandiaran).- Chapter 5. An Ombudsman for Nature: Putting environmental protection into practice within an 'EcoConstitution' (Mia Wercinski).- Chapter 6. Managing mining: New environmental contracts in light of loss, inequality, and climate change (Katie Lessmeier).- Chapter 7. Re-thinking property and pollution: Conserving the Night Sky as Natural Commons (Isabella Millet).- Chapter 8. Knowledge systems: Redefining Science and Bioethics for the Common Good (Camila Torralbo & Maite Salazar).- Chapter 9. Rural education, agroecology, and environmental know-how (Lucas Bricca).