Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice
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Escobar, Arturo
Bakker, Karen
Hommes, Lena
Swyngedouw, Erik
Hogenboom, Barbara
Huijbens, Edward H
Jackson, Sue
Vos, Jeroen
Harris, Leila M
Joy, KJ
de Castro, Fabio
Duarte-Abadía, Bibiana
Tubino de Souza, Daniele
Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
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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’.
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The Journal of Peasant Studies
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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Ecology
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Boelens, R; Escobar, A; Bakker, K; Hommes, L; Swyngedouw, E; Hogenboom, B; Huijbens, EH; Jackson, S; Vos, J; Harris, LM; Joy, KJ; de Castro, F; Duarte-Abadía, B; Tubino de Souza, D; Lotz-Sisitka, H; et al., Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022