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Indigenous water ontologies
Plurilegal encounters
Interlegal translation

Ontologías indígenas del agua
Encuentros plurilegales
Traducción interlegal

RIVERS Behind the Scenes – Bridges between Asia and Latin America
RIVERS Behind the Scenes – Bridges between Asia and Latin America

On September 20th 2021, many flows of thought joined together as the RIVERS team gathered for their monthly Internal Reading Seminar. This session’s discussion, planned and moderated by Austin Lord and Diego Padilla, was centred around the concept of ‘hydro-extractivism’ and used a diverse set of texts to map out modes of extractivism and water-based conflicts in different comparative contexts. Reading seminars are just one of many ways in which the RIVERS team constructs interdisciplinary dialogues, as we seek to learn together and from each other.

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RIVERS first academic publication is out
RIVERS first academic publication is out

RIVERS Principal Instigator, Lieselotte Viaene, contributed to the Special Issue 'The Politics of the Human Right to Water' in the international journal Water.

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Call for papers Special Issue 2023 International Journal of Transitional Justice: Transitional Justice and Nature: a curious silence?
Call for papers Special Issue 2023 International Journal of Transitional Justice: Transitional Justice and Nature: a curious silence?

Guest editors: Lieselotte Viaene (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), Peter Doran (Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University in Canberra, Australia)

Deadline: 1 June 2022

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Doing open science in anthropology – what challenges?
Doing open science in anthropology – what challenges?

By Camille Parguel

Open science aims to bring academic knowledge into the hands of society through a more accessible research process. But what are the challenges of applying this new paradigm to disciplines such as anthropology? Here are some reflections on this debate, which somehow relate to collaborative digital archives, coastal communities’ adaptation to climate change and sexy storytelling.

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Primer conversatorio de RIVERS en Guatemala «Una mirada crítica a los litigios sobre el agua. Un diálogo entre Colombia y Guatemala»
Primer conversatorio de RIVERS en Guatemala «Una mirada crítica a los litigios sobre el agua. Un diálogo entre Colombia y Guatemala»

Día 23 de noviembre a las 9am hora de Guatemala

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II WEBINAR FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS “NATURE AND ITS RIGHTS” – DECEMBRE 15TH AND 16TH
II WEBINAR FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS “NATURE AND ITS RIGHTS” – DECEMBRE 15TH AND 16TH

On December 15th and 16th, 2021 the RIVERS project will hold the second edition of the seminar for young researchers “Nature and its Rights”. On this occasion we are honored to have seven speakers and six commentators from different parts of the world.

The session on December 15th will be held in Spanish and the session on December 16th in English.

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RIVERS (2019-2024) is a research project that aims to produce ground-breaking knowledge, from an empirical, interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective, about the contentions and challenges intrinsic to reconceptualising human rights with different ways of understanding and relating to water. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), coordinated by Lieselotte Viaene and hosted in the Department of Social Sciences, at Carlos III University of Madrid.

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  • On December 15th and 16th, 2021 the RIVERS project will hold the second edition of the seminar for young researchers “Nature and its Rights”. On this occasion we are honored to have seven speakers and six commentators from different parts of the world. The session......

    26 November, 2021

  • Les invito cordialmente al primer conversatorio de RIVERS en Guatemala “Una mirada crítica a los litigios sobre el agua. Un diálogo entre Colombia y Guatemala”, el día 23 de noviembre a las 9am hora de Guatemala Presencial: Fundación María y Antonio Goubaud Carrera, 8 Calle......

    18 November, 2021

  • By Stella Terjung
    On September 20th 2021, many flows of thought joined together as the RIVERS team gathered for their monthly Internal Reading Seminar. This session’s discussion, planned and moderated by Austin Lord and Diego Padilla, was centred around the concept of ‘hydro-extractivism’ and used a diverse set of texts to map out modes of extractivism and water-based conflicts in different comparative contexts. Reading seminars are just one of many ways in which the RIVERS team constructs interdisciplinary dialogues, as we seek to learn together and from each other....

    04 November, 2021

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