Living Rivers and the New Water Justice Movements: From Dominating Waterscapes to the Rights of Nature

Project Information

RIVERHOOD

Grant agreement ID: 101002921

DOI

10.3030/101002921

EC signature date 16 February 2021

Start date 1 July 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 998 717,00

EU contribution

€ 1 998 717,00

Coordinated by

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (32)

¿Seguridad hídrica urbano-rural en los fondos de agua? Un análisis desde las relaciones de poder, la participación y la co-creación de conocimientos

Author(s): Bibiana Duarte-Abadia; Galarza Suárez, L.; Hidalgo-Bastidas, J.
Published in: Grassroots - Journal of Political Ecology, Issue Vol 30, 2023, ISSN 1073-0451
Publisher: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
DOI: 10.2458/jpe.5295

Manufacturing ignorance or dealing with complexity? Adaptation politics and the making of river futures in Colombia

Author(s): Lotte de Jong, Lieke Anna Melsen, Rutgerd Boelens, Gert Jan Veldwisch
Published in: Futures, Issue 173, 2025, Page(s) 103664, ISSN 0016-3287
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103664

Multispecies imaginaries for river justice: Mobilising in defence of the Piatúa River, Ecuador

Author(s): Carlota Houart, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 118, 2025, Page(s) 103296, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103296

Azudes along the Serpis River: Cultural Heritage, Obstacles and Contested Authority

Author(s): Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo; Juliana Forigua-Sandoval
Published in: Blue Papers, Issue Vol 2 No 2, 2023, ISSN 2950-1466
Publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.2.11

(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure

Author(s): Lena Hommes, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 97, 2022, Page(s) 102698, ISSN 1873-5096
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102698

The synchronization of hydrotemporalities in fishing territories: Debating time and history in the Llanito swamp, Magdalena River (Colombia)

Author(s): Juliana Forigua-Sandoval, Lieke Anna Melsen, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 165, 2026, Page(s) 104381, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104381

From denouncing dry streams to a river of resistance: the role of law in contesting hydropower in the La Miel River, Colombia

Author(s): Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo, Laurent Cuervo-Escobar, Jeroen Vos, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2025, Page(s) 1-28, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2025.2536492

Whose Past? Reflections on the Recuperation of Ancestral Water Structures in Peru.

Author(s): Lena Hommes
Published in: Blue papers, Issue Volume 2 No 2, 2023, ISSN 2950-1466
Publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.2.06

Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain

Author(s): Jaime Hoogesteger; Vivian Konijnenberg; Lieke Brackel; Sjoerd Kemink; Michiel Kusters; Bas Meester; Anusha Sanjeev Mehta; Tjalling ‘t Hart; Mark van der Poel; Pippi van Ommen; Rutgerd Boelens; Carles Sanchis-Ibor
Published in: International Journal of the Commons, Issue 17(1), 2023, Page(s) 109–124, ISSN 1875-0281
Publisher: International Association for the Study of the Commons
DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1216

Rivers of Scarcity. Utopian water regimes and flows against the current

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Alternautas, Issue Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 14-53, ISSN 2057-4924
Publisher: University of Warwick Press
DOI: 10.31273/an.v9i1.1152

Unveiling Pathways to Enhance Social Learning Processes in Water Struggles.

Author(s): Daniele Tubino de Souza
Published in: Water, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 629, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w16050629

Seeing rivers otherwise: Critical cartography as a form of critical pedagogy

Author(s): Daniele Tubino de Souza, Karolien van Teijlingen, Rutgerd Boelens, Gabriela Ruales
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 158, 2024, Page(s) 104167, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104167

Chinampas Agriculture and Settlement Patterns: The Contemporary Relevance of Aztec Floating Gardens

Author(s): Catalina Rey-Hernández; Inge Bobbink
Published in: Blue Papers, Issue Vol 1 No 2, 2022, ISSN 2950-1466
Publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.09

Fabricating Irrigators: Contested Hydrosocial Territories and Subject-Making in Spain’s Tagus–Segura Interbasin Transfer Arena.

Author(s): Bourguignon, N.; Villamayor-Tomás, S.; Boelens, R.
Published in: Water, Issue 16(2), 2024, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w16020192

Ríos, Redes y Movimientos Sociales. Una conceptualización de experiencias españolas desde la ecología política

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens, Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo, Nicholas Bourguignon, Carolina Cuevas Parra, Bibiana Duarte-Abadia, Daniele Tubino-de-Souza, Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Jeroen Vos, Sergio Villamayor Tomas, Jaime Hoogesteger
Published in: Pensamiento al Margen Revista Digital de Ideas Políticas., Issue Número 20 (2024), 2024, Page(s) pp. 84 - 10, ISSN 2386-6098
Publisher: ACEP

Water assemblages in hydrosocial territories: Connecting place, space, and time through the cultural-material signification of water in coastal Peru

Author(s): Luis Reyes Escate, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Geoforum, Issue Volume 135, 2022, Page(s) 61-70, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.005

River Defence and Restoration Movements: A Literature Review.

Author(s): Jeroen Vos
Published in: Water Alternatives, Issue 17(2), 2024, Page(s) 239-265, ISSN 1965-0175
Publisher: Water Alternatives Association

Engaging with Water and Rivers from a Multispecies Justice Perspective

Author(s): Carlota Houart
Published in: Blue Papers, Issue Vol 2 No 1, 2023, ISSN 2950-1466
Publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.05

Hydrosocial territories: imaginaries, materialities, and struggles over knowledge, order and meaning

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Jaime Hoogesteger, Erik Swyngedouw, Jeroen Vos, Philippus Wester
Published in: Water International, Issue 50, 2025, Page(s) 426-462, ISSN 0250-8060
Publisher: International Water Resources Association
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2025.2528261

Utopian River Planning and Hydrosocial Territory Transformations in Colombia and Spain

Author(s): Bibiana Duarte-Abadía
Published in: Water, Issue Volume 15; Issue 14;2545, 2023, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w15142545

"""The Ageing of Infrastructure and Ideologies: Contestations Around Dam Removal in Spain"""

Author(s): Lena Hommes
Published in: Water Alternatives, Issue Vol. 15, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 592-613, ISSN 1965-0175
Publisher: Water Alternatives Association

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens, Arturo Escobar, Karen Bakker, Lena Hommes, Erik Swyngedouw, Barbara Hogenboom, Edward H. Huijbens, Sue Jackson, Jeroen Vos, Leila M. Harris, K.J. Joy, Fabio de Castro, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Daniele Tubino de Souza, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Nuria Hernández-Mora, Joan Martínez-Alier, Denisse Roca-Servat, Tom Perreault, Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Diana Suhardiman, Astrid Ulloa, Arjen Wals,
Published in: The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022, ISSN 0306-6150
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810

Power and politics across species boundaries: towards Multispecies Justice in Riverine Hydrosocial Territories

Author(s): Carlota Houart, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Environmental politics, 2024, ISSN 0964-4016
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2024.2345561

Hydropower Politics in Northeast India: Dam Development Contestations, Electoral Politics and Power Reconfigurations in Sikkim

Author(s): Rinchu Doma Dukpa, Jaime Hoogesteger, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Water, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 1061, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w16071061

The need to acknowledge, study and engage with new water justice movements

Author(s): Lena Hommes, Jeroen Vos, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: PLOS Water, 2023, ISSN 2767-3219
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000128

Producing conservation territories: Transforming páramos in Ecuador

Author(s): Rossana Manosalvas, Jaime Hoogesteger, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) 1606-1625, ISSN 2514-8486
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/25148486251353634

Understanding Anti-Dam Resistance Politics: A Historical and Territorial Study of Two Megadams in Coastal Ecuador

Author(s): Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas
Published in: Water, Issue 15, 4132, 2023, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w15234132

Making Rivers, Producing Futures: The Rise of an Eco-Modern River Imaginary in Dutch Climate Change Adaptation. Water

Author(s): De Jong, L., Veldwisch, G. J., Melsen, L. A., & Boelens, R.
Published in: Water, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w16040598

River Commoning and the State: A Cross‐Country Analysis of River Defense Collectives

Author(s): Hoogesteger, J., Suhardiman, D., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., Duarte-Abadía, B., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., Liebrand, J.W., Hernández‐Mora, N., Manorom, K., Veldwisch, G.J., Vos, J.
Published in: Politics and Governance, 2023, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio Press
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v11i2.6316

River mapping and the politics of eco-scalar fixes. Reconnecting upstream–downstream networks through critical cartographies of Colombia’s Bogotá River

Author(s): Laura Giraldo-Martínez, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 165, 2025, Page(s) 104379, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104379

River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action

Author(s): Daniele Tubino de Souza, Lena Hommes, Arjen Wals, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Edward Huijbens, Leila M. Harris, Diana Suhardiman, Lieke Melsen, Tom Buijse, Fabio de Castro, Leontien Cremers, Barbara Hogenboom, Mariela Garcia Vargas, Denisse Roca-Servat, Gert Jan Veldwisch, K. J. Joy
Published in: Local Environment, Issue 30, 2025, Page(s) 58-80, ISSN 1354-9839
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2428215

“Riverhood” and the Politics of (Mis)Recognizing Local Water Cultures and Water Rights Systems

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: Blue Papers, Issue Vol 1 No 2, 2022, ISSN 2950-1466
Publisher: Stichting OpenAccess
DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.02

Other (6)

Report Secondment: The Meuse River. Research and practice, living the fieldwork

Author(s): Jeroen Vos, Daniele Tubino de Souza, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Tom Buijse, Lieke Melsen, Edwin Peeters, Lotte de Jong
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Riverhood and River Commons Projects

Re-designing Rivers; Power and representation in the Yanuncay river, Ecuador

Author(s): Catalina Rey-Hernández
Published in: 4TU.Federation, 2023
Publisher: 4TU.Federation

Launch of ‘Pensar con los Ríos’ Project

Author(s): Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Moving Rivers website

Report Seminar: Rivers, Commons, Movements. Transdisciplinary and crosscultural conceptualizations of river socionatures

Author(s): Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas, Ana Maria Arbeláez, Juliana Forigua, Rutgerd Boelens
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Riverhood and River Commons Projects

Report Summer School River Lives and Living Rivers: Towards a transdisciplinary conceptualization

Author(s): Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Daniele Tubino de Souza, Lieke Melsen
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Riverhood and River Commons Projects

De Berkel river Encounters: Relations about biodiversity, mapping and cyanotypes

Author(s): Catalina Rey-Hernández; Laura Giraldo-Martínez
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Riverhood