“Plants and the Law: Vegetal Ontologies and the Rights of Nature. A Perspective from Latin America”

This chapter challenges traditional legal frameworks by proposing an ontology of plants that recognizes their agency and life beyond human use. The author calls for legal structures that reflect the cultural and ecological meanings of vegetal beings, especially within Latin American contexts, thus generating space for imagining a legal system where plants hold rights rooted in relational and spiritual understandings.