14 research outputs found
Neoliberal commensuration and new enclosures of the commons: mining and market–environmentalism governmentalities
Territory in conflict: land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain
River lives, River movements. Fisher communities mobilizing local and official rules in defense of the Magdalena River
Environmental Justice Movements in Globalizing Networks: A Critical Discussion on Social Resistance against Large Dams
We examine the social resistance against large dams as environmental justice movements in four case studies - the Sardar Sarovar Project from India, the Hidrosogamoso from Colombia, the ‘new water culture’ movement in Spain, and the Lesotho Highlands Project from Lesotho - with diverse social, political and environmental contexts. We discuss three broad issues. First, the nature of the involvement of civil society and metropolitan intelligentsia in leadership roles. Second, how cross-class and multi-sectoral alliances have been forged between the local and the global. And third, how the notion of environmental justice in relation to social justice is adopted in these movements
Water governmentalities:The shaping of hydrosocial territories, water transfers and rural–urban subjects in Latin America
Alianzas antiembalse y luchas hidroepistemológicas. Los retos de la gestión colectiva del agua en el RÃo Grande, Málaga, España
Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice
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’