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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 âunruly waters and humansâ 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 riverâsociety ontologies, bridge SouthâNorth divides, and translate river-enlivening practices from local to global and vice-versa. This paper's framework conceptualizes âriverhoodâ 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: âriver-as-ecosocietyâ, âriver-as-territoryâ, âriver-as-subjectâ, and âriver-as-movementâ
The Rhine River Basin
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