Viaene Lab

Carlos III University of Madrid

Vlaams Gewest (BE2) · Belgium

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2018

Water/human rights beyond the human? Indigenous water ontologies, plurilegal encounters and interlegal translation

RIVERS’s main challenge is to produce ground-breaking knowledge, from an empirical, interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective, about the contentions and challenges intrinsic to reconceptualising human rights with different ways of understanding and relating to water. Worldwide, indigenous peoples are mobilising against the neoliberalisation of nature, demonstrating radically different ways of knowing, being and living. At the same time, in 2010 the UN acknowledged water as a human right, while in 2017 New Zealand, India and Colombia established ground-breaking legal precedents by granting rivers human rights. RIVERS’s overarching research question is: To what extent can international…

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