On November 1, 2024, Satya Maia Patchineelam defended her PhD thesis at Erasmus University Rotterdam, entitled “Voicing the Invisibles. Investigating Impacts of Resettlement on Riverine Women due to the Construction […]
Rinchu Doma Dukpa, from Darjeeling, India defended her PhD thesis titled “The Politics of Place and the Place of Politics. Large hydropower dam contestations in Sikkim, India” on the 8th […]
On 25 October, postdoctoral researcher Daniele Tubino de Souza presented the short documentary ‘Rivers in Movement: Following the Voice of the People” at the Dutch Design Week, in Eindhoven. This […]
By Balthazar Sellier (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) It is 9 a.m., and I am sitting in a panaderia enjoying my first coffee of the day after a […]
By Balthazar Sellier (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) Our common journey starts in Cali, the capital of biodiversity for ten days as it hosts the COP16. It’s 11 […]
By Balthazar Sellier (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) My name is Balthazar Sellier, and I am 23 years old and a student in the international development research master’s […]
By Sanne Kroezen (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) Introduction My name is Sanne Kroezen Peña, I am a Dutch-Ecuadorian MSc student of Law and Society at Leiden University. […]
By Sanne Kroezen (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) Introduction My name is Sanne Kroezen Peña, I am a Dutch-Ecuadorian MSc student of Law and Society at Leiden University. […]
By: Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo The defense of rivers in Colombia is as diverse as their geographies, waters, and communities. From grassroots actions to court rulings granting legal rights to rivers, […]
By Maartje Claassens (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) Since my last two updates, a lot has happened here in Ecuador. I have been here for more than three […]
By Maartje Claassens (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025) Do you remember that Susana and Sebastián invited me to join them to Guamote for a workshop? Today we went […]
By Maartje Claassens (Master students exchange programme, cohort of 2024-2025)) I promised to send an update every once in a while from Ecuador, and as I have already been here […]
The Riverhood and River Commons team expresses its solidarity with all the affected families, communities, and their partner organizations in Valencia and the neighbouring provinces, after the devastating floods, for […]
On September 25, 2024, Hannah Porada presented a part of her PhD research related to bridging distant local environmental struggles during a webinar organized by the NEWAVE project. Guadalupe Garcia […]
Photo header: Chisala with the fishermen in initial focus group discussion By: Chisala Lupele When designing research methodologies, we consider different scenarios of our positionality, but in reality, building trust […]
From 27 to 30 August 2024, Oslo Metropolitan University and partner institutes organized the “Riverine Rights Conference” to discuss the findings of the Riverine Rights project. It presented its 4-years […]
From 27 to 30 August 2024, the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 was held in London under the theme ‘Mapping’. The conference explored ‘mapping in all its forms, in a […]
The final reflection document of the Moving Rivers Seminar Manizales Colombia is now available. This document (in Spanish) reflects the main ideas and concepts presented during the presentations and debates […]
On 5 July 2024, the Riverhood and River Commons teams organised an international seminar on “Water Commoning Struggles” following the PhD defence of Moritz Hofstetter. Moritz defended his thesis, entitled […]
On the 2 July 2024, members of the Riverhood & River Commons teams presented their ongoing research in two panels on “Translocal Social Movements for Riverine Justice in Latin America”, […]
On the 24 April I successfully defended my PhD dissertation at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). The dissertation explored the multi-scalar […]
The faculty of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of St.Gallen is pleased to invite you to its Spring 2024 guest lecture: Rutgerd Boelens: Rivers, Territories and Power. […]
On 6 March 2024, PhD Carlota Houart had the opportunity to present the River Commons project at the ‘Wageningen Impact for Sustainable Futures’ event, which brought together several outstanding projects […]
By Ana Arbelaez Trujillo The global nature of the dynamics that affect rivers, bringing many of them close to ecological collapse and provoking political, cultural and socioeconomic crises, makes it […]
The “Ríos en Movimiento” International Conference that took place in Manizales, Colombia, from 12 to 15 March 2024, bringing together academics and river activists from all over the world, was […]
The International Conference “Ríos en Movimiento” has been organised as one of the knowledge exchange activities of the Riverhood and River Commons research projects. The meeting took place in Manizales, […]
The “Diary of Travelling Rivers” has won the international Impact Docs Award. The Impact Docs Awards are part of the prestigious Global Film Awards family and are an international awards […]
“Walking Along Rivers, Feeling Through Infrastructures” is a blog written by Laura Betancur Alarcón (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems-IRI THESys at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Ana […]
Check out this job offer! Eucor – The European Campus is a trinational consortium of five universities in the Upper Rhine region, which is a border area between Germany, France, […]
By Susana Zavala The Environmental Justice in Practice course at Wageningen University proposes an approach that involves students in practical cases of competition for natural resources. In this sense, together […]