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NEW PUB FROM RUTGERD BOELENS, LEILA HARRIS, AND OTHERS- RIVERHOOD: POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF SOCIONATURE COMMONING AND TRANSLOCAL STRUGGLES FOR WATER JUSTICE

NEW PUB FROM RUTGERD BOELENS, LEILA HARRIS, AND OTHERS- RIVERHOOD: POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF SOCIONATURE COMMONING AND TRANSLOCAL STRUGGLES FOR WATER JUSTICE

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 […]