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“Riverhood” and the Politics of (Mis)Recognizing Local Water Cultures and Water Rights Systems by Boelens, Rutgerd

“…An appreciation of the diversity of world water cultures – past and present – is essential to recognizing the conflicts and solutions that exist within water…”
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Rivers of Scarcity. Utopian water regimes and flows against the current by Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Utopians organized space, nature and society to perfection, including land and water governance -- rescuing society from deep-rooted crisis: “The happiest…”
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Contested Knowledges: Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development by Boelens, Rutgerd, Shah, Esha, Bruins, Bert

“…Locally and globally, mega-hydraulic projects have become deeply controversial. Recently, despite widespread critique, they have regained a new impetus…”
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Ontological politics in river defence debates: Unpacking fields of contention in eco-centric and non-human turns by Rutgerd Boelens, Lena Hommes, Jaime Hoogesteger

“…In response to capitalist territorial transformations, humans’ predatory subjection of nature, and worldwide socio-environmental injustices, a diverse set of…”
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High-Efficiency Irrigation: Local Water Users’ Responses to the Modernization of Village Irrigation Technology and Government Control in China by Xu, Qinhong, Boelens, Rutgerd, Veldwisch, Gert Jan

“…In this paper, we investigate China’s vigorously promoted high-efficiency irrigation policies for farmland water conservation, deploying a governmentality…”
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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons by Hofstetter, Moritz, Bolding, Alex, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Water schemes that rely on user (co-) ownership and collective action have been described in the irrigation sector for a long time. Still, interest in such…”
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Contractual Reciprocity and the Re-Making of Community Hydrosocial Territories: The Case of La Chimba in the Ecuadorian páramos by Manosalvas, Rossana, Hoogesteger, Jaime, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…In the Andes, indigenous communities are being increasingly besieged because their páramos act as water providers for cities and irrigation systems downstream…”
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Hydropower Politics in Northeast India: Dam Development Contestations, Electoral Politics and Power Reconfigurations in Sikkim by Dukpa, Rinchu Doma, Hoogesteger, Jaime, Veldwisch, Gert Jan, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Around the world, the development of large dams has been increasingly contested. India is no exception and has seen the mobilisation of powerful domestic and…”
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Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland by HOFSTETTER, MORITZ, BOLDING, ALEX, BOELENS, RUTGERD

“…Citizens outside of the built-up zone in the Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland are self-responsible to establish and maintain their water services. In response…”
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Fabricating Irrigators: Contested Hydrosocial Territories and Subject-Making in Spain’s Tagus–Segura Interbasin Transfer Arena by Bourguignon, Nicholas, Villamayor-Tomás, Sergio, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…This article explores how irrigation farmer (regante) subjectivities are constructed in direct conjunction with the production of modernist–capitalist…”
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Making Rivers, Producing Futures: The Rise of an Eco-Modern River Imaginary in Dutch Climate Change Adaptation by de Jong, Lotte, Veldwisch, Gert Jan, Melsen, Lieke Anna, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…In the field of climate change adaptation, the future matters. River futures influence the way adaptation projects are implemented in rivers. In this paper, we…”
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Dams and Damages. Conflicting Epistemological Frameworks and Interests Concerning “Compensation” for the Misicuni Project’s Socio-Environmental Impacts in Cochabamba, Bolivia by Hoogendam, Paul, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…The Misicuni multipurpose hydraulic project was designed to transfer water from a neighboring watershed to the Cochabamba Valley in the center of Bolivia for…”
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Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador by Hidalgo-Bastidas, Juan Pablo, Boelens, Rutgerd, Isch, Edgar

“…There is a forceful new impetus toward mega-hydraulic projects in Latin America, which are booming but also highly controversial. They bring benefits to some…”
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Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Securing Resource Flows for the Affluent? by Rodríguez-de-Francisco, Jean Carlo, Duarte-Abadía, Bibiana, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is not only a prominent, globally promoted policy to foster nature conservation, but also increasingly propagated as an…”
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How the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Water and Sanitation is a Human Right!’ Changed EU Discourse on Water Services Provision by van den Berge, Jerry, Boelens, Rutgerd, Vos, Jeroen

“…In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly recognized the human right to water and sanitation in what is seen as a historical vote by water activists…”
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Hydraulic Order and the Politics of the Governed: The Baba Dam in Coastal Ecuador by Hidalgo-Bastidas, Juan, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…Mega-dams are commonly designed, constructed, and implemented under governors’ rule and technocrats’ knowledge. Such hydraulic infrastructures are…”
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Reflections: Contested Epistemologies on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development by Shah, Esha, Boelens, Rutgerd, Bruins, Bert

“…The contributions to the Special Issue on Contested Knowledges: Water Conflicts on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development have looked at the politics of…”
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Contesting Hydropower Dams in the Eastern Himalaya: The Cultural Politics of Identity, Territory and Self-Governance Institutions in Sikkim, India by Dukpa, Rinchu, Joshi, Deepa, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…In India’s Eastern Himalayan State of Sikkim, the indigenous Bhutia communities, Lachungpas and Lachenpas, successfully contested all proposed hydropower…”
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Social movements in defense of public water services: the case of Spain by Berge, Jerry van den, Scheunpflug, Luca, Vos, Jeroen, Boelens, Rutgerd

“…In several cities and regions in Spain there has been a fight against privatization of water supply in the past decade. Some cities have decided to…”
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Mobilizing Water Actors and Bodies of Knowledge. The Multi-Scalar Movement against the Río Grande Dam in Málaga, Spain by Duarte Abadía, Bibiana, Boelens, Rutgerd, du Pré, Lucas

“…Just as in other parts of Spain, the Guadalhorce Valley, Málaga, has a long history of policies based on ‘hydraulic utopianism’ (regenerationist and…”
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