Riverhood : political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice
Boelens, Rutgerd (Wageningen University. Department Environmental Sciences)
Escobar, Arturo (University of North Carolina. Department of Anthropology)
Bakker, Karen (University of British Columbia. Department of Geography)
Hommes, Lena (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Swyngedouw, Erik (University of Manchester. Department of Geography)
Hogenboom, Barbara (University of Amsterdam)
Huijbens, Edward H. (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Jackson, Sue (Griffith University)
Vos, Jeroen (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Harris, Leila M. (University of British Columbia)
Joy, K.j. (Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management)
De castro, Fabio (University of Amsterdam)
Duarte-Abadía, Bibiana (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Tubino de souza, Daniele (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Rhodes University. Department of Transformative Social Learning and Sustainability)
Hernández-Mora, Nuria (New Water Culture Foundation)
Martínez Alier, Joan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica)
Roca-Servat, Denisse (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana)
Perreault, Tom (Syracuse University. Department of Geography)
Sanchis-Ibor, Carles (Valencian Centre for Irrigation Studies)
Suhardiman, Diana (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
Ulloa, Astrid (Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Department of Geography)
Wals, Arjen (Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences)
Hoogesteger, Jaime (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Hidalgo-Bastidas, Juan Pablo (Wageningen University. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Roa-Avendaño, Tatiana (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)
Veldwisch, Gert Jan (Wageningen University, Wageningen. Department of Environmental Sciences)
Woodhouse, Phil (University of Manchester)
Wantzen, Karl M. (UNESCO)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals

Date:	2023
Abstract:	Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering 'unruly waters and humans' have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, transdisciplinary, multi-scalar coalitions that deploy alternative river-society ontologies, bridge South-North divides, and translate river-enlivening practices from local to global and vice-versa. This paper's framework conceptualizes 'riverhood' to engage with NWJMs and river commoning initiatives. We suggest four interrelated ontologies, situating river socionatures as arenas of material, social and symbolic co-production: 'river-as-ecosociety', 'river-as-territory', 'river-as-subject', and 'river-as-movement'.
Grants:	European Commission 101002921
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Disruptive co-production ; Environmental justice ; Hydrosocial territories ; Ontological complexity ; River commoning ; Translocal movements
Published in:	The Journal of peasant studies, Vol. 50, Issue 3 (November 2023) , p. 1125-1156, ISSN 1743-9361

DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810

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