Abstract
In this article, I examine the international law on the use of force alongside a feminist analysis of the ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine. I draw on records of mushroom foraging to evidence how everyday practices of communities are destroyed by military aggression that disrupts the embodied ecologies reproduced in intergenerational human and nonhuman encounters. The mushrooms foraged in Ukraine, the mushrooms destroyed during military encounters, and the mushrooms growing beside land mines provide an aperture for shifting both feminist and international legal accounts of armed conflict. I argue that ecologies of harm produce means to understand the gendered violence in armed conflict prompting a shift beyond the status quo of international law and legal relations on the use of force and the preoccupation with justifications and authorisations for military force.
Recommended Citation
Gina Heathcote,
Embodied Ecologies and Legal Wars: The Use of Force, Ukraine, and Feminist Perspectives on International Law,
68
St. Louis U. L.J.
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol68/iss2/3