International Seminar on Water Commoning Struggles at Wageningen University

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 “Community, Markets, and Conviviality: A Political Ecology of Rural Water Supply”, in the morning, and the seminar took place in the afternoon.

The seminar included presentations from members of the jury committee Emilie Dupuits (University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) and Mary Galvin (Water Integrity Network, Berlin, and University of Johannesburg, South Africa); and from researchers from Wageningen University Jerry van de Berge, Jaime Hoogesteger, and Carlota Houart.

They talked about the commons, struggles for commoning, the role of youth in commoning processes, commons from a multispecies justice perspective, moving from Ecuador to South Africa to the EU and to more conceptual and political debates.

International Seminar on Water Commoning Struggles at Wageningen University, 5 July 2024