The Struggle for Law: Legal strategies, environmental struggles and climate actions in Italy
Keywords:
Social movements, legal strategy, climate action, Movimientos sociales, estrategia jurídica, acción climáticaAbstract
The legal field constitutes both an advantageous and restrictive tool for social struggles. Current movements trust law and litigation as beneficial instruments. Nevertheless, legal strategies are deployed against protestors too. This article stems from processes of criminalization and unsuccessful “struggle for law” towards cases where legal strategies are embraced by social movements to demonstrate the Janus-faced nature of the legal field. The focus is on Italy, and is based on two-year judicial ethnography on the No TAV movement and fieldwork as well as documental analysis on the anti-Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) mobilization. Hence, the analysis focuses on a “positive” case selection, namely the most relevant climate litigation strategies pursued worldwide, with a special focus on Giudizio Universale, the first Italian action. The goal is to grasp both the conflicting aspects and the resourceful nature of law through empirical cases and case law to evaluate potential successful practices for current social movements.El campo del derecho constituye una herramienta tanto ventajosa como restrictiva para las luchas sociales. Los movimientos actuales confían en el derecho y el litigio como instrumentos favorables. Sin embargo, las estrategias jurídicas también se despliegan en contra de quienes protestan. Este artículo se origina en procesos de criminalización y “luchas por el derecho” infructuosas en casos en los que movimientos sociales han abrazado estrategias jurídicas para demostrar la naturaleza de Jano bifronte del derecho. El centro de atención es Italia, y nos basamos en la etnografía jurídica de dos años del movimiento en contra del Tren de Alta Velocidad y en trabajo de campo, así como en análisis documentales de la movilización contra el Gasoducto Trans-Adriático (TAP, en inglés). Por tanto, el análisis se centra en una selección de casos “positiva”, con especial atención a Giudizio Universale, la primera acción en Italia. El objetivo es entender tanto los aspectos en conflicto y los múltiples recursos del derecho a través de casos empíricos y jurisprudencia, a fin de evaluar prácticas de posible éxito para movimientos sociales en vigor.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1153
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