From outside to within
I’m Ilaria Carbellotti, an Italian master student in Organic Agriculture at Wageningen University. I’m currently doing fieldwork for my thesis in La Mata and Sempegua, two little fishermen villages of […]
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Entries by Daniele
The Twelfth National Water Forum, Quito, Ecuador
Finally, the researchers of the Riverhood and River Commons projects and the Travelling Rivers initiative participated in the Twelfth National Water Forum, co-organized with Ecuadorian partner CAMAREN. More than 1000 […]
International seminar “Ríos, Territorios y Poder: cartografía política y representaciones hidrosociales alternativas”, Riobamba, Ecuador
The Travelling Rivers workshop series was further complemented by the international seminar “Ríos, Territorios y Poder: cartografía política y representaciones hidrosociales alternativas”, organized by Riverhood and River Commons in Riobamba, […]
Travelling Rivers Initiative in Colombia and Ecuador
From April to June this year, fisher and peasant communities, social movements and activists-artists María Benítez and Vanessa Roa, and researchers from the Riverhood and River Commons projects, engaged in […]
Land of many faces
My name is Pieter van Dalen, and after three weeks in Medellín learning Spanish, I am spending the next few months in Bogotá. This city is known for its altitude […]
The small broccoli revolution
Hi, I am Meike! Normally, I am studying as a MSc student of Wageningen University in Wageningen, but currently, I live and work in Ecuador to execute fieldwork for my […]
Sara’s fieldwork in Sempegua, Colombia
I am Sara, a Master’s student in Biology and International Land & Water Management at WUR. I am currently writing my master’s thesis in Cienaga de Zapatosa, Colombia. Here, I […]
Franciska’s fieldwork in Zambia
Hello there! This is Franciska Sprong writing here. I am a master student from the program Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Currently I am in […]
Travelling Rivers Initiative – counter mapping four Colombian rivers
The Travelling Rivers initiative, part of the Riverhood and River Commons projects, promotes transnational solidarity collaboration and transdisciplinary learning between different riverine cultures. Since April 2023, four Colombian rivers are […]
Piquete de río en el Salto de Tequendama convoca a activistas y cuidadores del agua para honrar las memorias y el futuro del río Bogotá
PhD researcher Laura Giraldo-Martínez, who is investigating the materialization of diverse socio-ecological memories in river infrastructures in the headwaters of the Bogotá River through an action research approach, has been […]
Día mundial del Agua: de la ONU a nuestra mesa
By Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo for La Silla Llena. Ana is a PhD researcher in the Riverhood project, Wageningen University. — Somos agua Si hay algo que nos conecta como humanidad es […]
Día mundial de acción por los ríos: ¿Qué estamos haciendo en Colombia?
By Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo, co-authored by Juliana Forigua-Sandoval and Laura Giraldo-Martínez for La Silla Llena. Ana is a PhD researcher in the Riverhood, and Juliana and Laura are PhD […]
Revitalizar el río Bogotá: redes y alianzas para su cuidado
By Laura Giraldo-Martínez for the newspaper EL ESPECTADOR. PhD researcher, River Commons project, Wageningen University, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Asociación Ambiente & Sociedad. El sistema de ríos y de […]
Contributing to water governance debates of the UN Water Conference (and beyond)
The recent UN Water Conference sparked an international momentum for debating water governance. Though not physically present, different researchers of the Riverhood and River Commons projects engaged in preparatory activities […]
We met the Magdalena River
After preparing and reading for over a year, I finally was able to touch the grand Magdalena river of Colombia for the first time together with Juliana. We visited the […]
Reviving the Bogotá River (Colombia)
The Bogotá river isn’t dead. Despite decades of being declared a liquid corpse, communities from its highland sources to the dramatic Tequendama Falls are taking action to care for this […]
12th Iberian Water Management and Planning Congress in Murcia, Spain
From 26 to 28 January 2023, Rutgerd Boelens, Jerry van de Berge, and Bibiana Duarte-Abadia attended the 12th Iberian Water Management and Planning Congress in Murcia, Spain, led by the […]
Update Master Student Exchange Program River Commons
The group of master students meets at Casa Migrante in Amsterdam, a non-profit organization that supports Spanish-speaking immigrants who live in and around Amsterdam. They already all seem so comfortable […]
United Nations, Riverhood, River Commons: Human Rights to Water and Socio-ecological Rivers
On January 26 and 27, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation, Dr. Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, coordinated with Riverhood/River Commons researchers Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte and […]
Knowledge that does not undermine anyone
In this interview for NWO, the Dutch Research Council, Rutgerd Boelens talks about how the Riverhood and River Commons projects address social and environmental challenges, specifically focusing on water management, […]
Riverhood in the event “Citizen Science in ERC projects”
On December 7th 2022, Rutgerd Boelens, Daniele Tubino, and Bibiana Duarte-Abadia attended the “Citizen Science in ERC projects: Mapping ERC frontier research” event, promoted by the European Research Council, in […]
Carlota Houart’s participation in the Deep Commons Conference 2022
On 27 October, Carlota Houart, PhD researcher at the Riverhood project, participated in the Deep Commons Conference 2022 as part of the panel “Towards multispecies justice”, to present her research […]
Logo for the WASS PhD Council
We are thrilled to share that Catalina Rey Hernández, PhD researcher of the Riverhood project, won the contest to design the logo for the WASS PhD Council. The decision was […]
First steps of Riverhood
In this interview published in the WUR magazine, Rutgerd Boelens reflects on the key issues and ideas addressed by the Riverhood project. This project, developed in partnership with a large […]
PhD graduation of Lena Hommes awarded with Cum Laude
On the 6th of July we celebrated the PhD defense of Lena Hommes, researcher in the Riverhood and River Commons projects, who graduated with a cum laude. In her PhD project […]