Since Ecuador recognized “mother earth”, or Pachamama, as a subject of rights in its constitution in 2008, “rights of nature” have emerged as a globalized topic for legal research. A bourgeoning academic literature has come to consider rights of nature as a new ecocentric legal paradigm rooted in indigenous cosmologies (footnote: Corrigan/Oksanen 2021; Gutmann 2021). This new form of ecocentric normativity has been praised as “a legal revolution that could save the