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Another Indian researcher, Kavita Upadhyay, will be working on the case study of the Uttarakhand High Court’s decision to grant legal personhood to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

Malene Karensdatter Brandshaug has been hired as a new postdoctoral research fellow. She will primarily be studying local efforts at creating rights for rivers in Peru.

Elizabeth Macpherson wins a new award for her book “Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience” (Cambridge University Press).

Facing downwards, sideways, or sometimes hazed, the camera forms an angular relationship with the river, as Siddharth wrestles as he walks on the uneven edge of the river’s bank built by a long history of deposited sediments – folded in time of a river so different from what we know now. The documentary begins as …

Continue reading “Rivers as Narratives: A review of “Moving Upstream Ganga””

Over the past three months, a lecture series was organised as part of the “Riverine Rights project: The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Right of Rivers”. The series is a continuation of the OsloMet South Asia Seminar Series hosted in the early Spring 2021.

Remarkable climatic events are leaving footprints on human memory. These events, particularly within mountainous and deltaic regions in South Asia, are a microcosm of a gradual shift in the environment or a result of climate change. Most of this emerge from systemic exploitation of the natural environment – constructions of dams and roads in the …

Continue reading “Imagining the Environment: Climate Change, Rivers and Political Ecology in India”

Miriama Cribb, from Whanganui, New Zealand, and working on a PhD project on the implementation of the Ta Awa Tupua legal personhood Act, is now affiliated with the Riverine Rights project.

New chapter by Whitney Richardson and John McNeish in open access edited book on extractivism and resource governance. Our Extractive Age is Open Access and can be downloaded here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48472

Details of the project task and responsibilities, required qualifications can be found here: https://www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-openings/post-doctoral-fellowship-position-in-socio-legal-studies

Travelling through the bank of rivers often evokes a poetic charm. The meandering river, its serpentine movements are folded in stories – changing chapters as it breathes through the landscape of city, towns and kasbahs. Each story uncovers a unique riverine spirit.