February 22nd 20024. The article is Open Access, and can be downloaded here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2314532. The article analyzes the implementation of the Te Awa Tupua Act which bestows legal personhood on the Whanganui River, and is written by Miriama Cribb, Elizabeth Macpherson and Axel Borchgrevink.
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New publication from the project
February 8 2024 A new article by Mihnea Tanasescu, Elizabeth Macpherson, David Jefferson and Julia Torres Ventura has just been published by the International Journal of Human Rights. It can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2314536. The article is the first to be published of what is to be a special issue of the journal, which will …
The Riverine Rights team visits the Río Atrato in Colombia
12. December 2023 From the 3rd to the 8th of December, the researchers of the Riverine Rights project held a workshop in Colombia.
Riverine Rights team meets the Whanganui River in New Zealand
By Carlos Y. Flores (text and photos) In January 2023, the whole Riverine Rights research team met in New Zealand for a workshop and trip along the Whanganui River. Read Carlos Flores’ report of the experience here.
Environmental Humanities Lecture Series: Crisis of Imagination
Registers of Loss, Pain, Hope, and Climate Change in India. Rahul Ranjan, Postdoc for the Riverine Rights project and Shalini Iyengar, a PhD candidate at Yale University, co-organised the lecture series this fall term 2022. In the epoch of Anthropocene, the vocabulary of loss and pain is commonplace. Defined variously, this epoch surfaces in violent …
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The Riverine Rights project was presented in the More-than-Human Rights Conference at New York University.
Two members of the Riverine Rights, Rahul Ranjan and Catalina Vallejo, were invited to New York. Both of them presented research work on the law and rights of nature
A member of the Riverine Rights participates in a research workshop in Germany
By John-Andrew McNeish John-Andrew McNeish participated in the research workshop “Indigenous Forms of Ownership in the Contexts of Extractivism and the Anthropocene: Ethnographic Comparisons from South America”. The workshop was held from the 1st to the 3rd of September at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Our team members attend the launch of More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project
By Catalina Vallejo Our team members Catalina Vallejo and Rahul Ranjan attended the launch of the More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project on September 22-24 in Tarrytown, NY State (USA). This project is an initiative of the Earth Rights Advocacy Clinic and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law …
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Riverine Rights team meets in India – and meets the Ganga
By Kavita Upadyay In the first in-person meeting in the two years since the project began, the Riverine Rights project’s team met in India in April, 2022. Led by Axel Borchgrevink, the team members from Norway, New Zealand, and India met in New Delhi on April 22 for a two-day workshop organised by Bibhu Prasad Nayak. Titled ‘Rivers …
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Water Shapes Life: Riverine Rights, Indigenous Struggles in India and the Politics of Memory
Spring comes around and the scenery around us comes alive once again! Jamie accidentally falls into a river and, feeling wronged by Mother Nature, decides its time to learn about them. Know thy enemy, I guess. Your hosts depart for the eastern parts of India where they’re gracefully welcomed by Rahul Ranjan, postdoc fellow at …