Session 2: “Forest, water and river: rights of nature” – Chocó y el río Atrato,
Colombia
Session 3: “Ecosistems: art and activism” – Public forum
Date: September 7-18, 2022
RIVERS participates in the summer school “Extractivism and its discontents: cultural and artistic counter-movements”
The summer school offers an international and interdisciplinary exchange on resource-extracting societies and the interconnectedness between the global South and Europe.
Participant: María Ximena González Serrano (RIVERS/UC3M)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference “Socio-environmental Polarization and Great Power Rivalry”
Date: May 5-8, 2022
RIVERS participates in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference
Indigenous Peoples, State-Capital and Water Extractivism: a multilevel analysis of water disputes in Guatemala (Spanish, online).
Organizers: Santiago Bastos (CIESAS Mexico) and María Jacinta Xón (RIVERS/UC3M)
Water Ontologies and Hydro-Extractivisms: Decolonizing Rivers in Central America and the Himalayan Region
Date: 17th February 2022
Organized by: Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M)
Participants: Georgina Drew (University of Adelaide), Austin Lord (Cornell University), Diego A Padilla (Universidad Rafael Landívar), Lieselotte Viaene (IP RIVERS/UC3M), Mabel D Gergan (Vanderbilt University)
THE RIGHTS OF NATURE AND THE RIGHT
TO TERRITORY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES:
From universal intrinsic value to epistemic and ontological plurality
Date: 3rd February 2022
Organized by: Max Planck Fellow Group Environmental Rights in Cultural Context (ERCC)
Participant: Digno Montalván (RIVERS/UC3M)