Normativité et construction des collectifs dans la justice environnementale. Traductions intersémiotiques de la Convention d’Aarhus - Normativity and the construction of collectives in environmental justice. Intersemiotic translations of the Aarhus Convention

Abstract: The Aarhus Convention is considered to be the most successful codification of environmental law. However, conflicts of interpretation and violations of non-compliance have led to the need to act on the regulatory text. This contribution analyzes, from a structural and generative semiotic perspective, the tension between the way in which the environment is codified by the norm in the political-legal sense of the term and the social normality in environmental matters as manifested by the collective appreciation of the debate. The intersemiotic translations involved in the review process, which affect the actors of the environment as well as its regimes of meaning and temporality, trace out a negotiable space available to environmental justice.