The Politics of Riverine Rights
Language: English
Published by Taylor and Francis, 2026
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- The Politics of Riverine Rights
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Publication year
- 2026
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- New
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- HRD
- Language
- English
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- 1032946784
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- 9781032946788
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- 620 grams
This edited collection is based on comparative ethnographic research and explores the concept of riverine rights in Aotaroa New Zealand, Colombia and India where rivers have been declared legal persons: the Whanganui River, Río Atrato, the Ganga and the Yamuna.
The cases drew significant attention from academia and the wider public, as examples of the rights of nature in practice. This book contributes with in-depth empirical research carried out by a highly interdisciplinary team of co-authors – from anthropology, law, history, political science, management studies and water science – many of whom are from the case study countries and the river basins. The first chapters carefully examine each case, discussing its history, the institutional context, the actors and interests, the issues to be addressed by the legal decisions and their outcomes. Subsequent chapters provide detailed comparative analysis on the rights of nature legal pluralism, the struggles of Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities and marginalized groups, and on different ontological understandings of the relations between people, rivers and nature. The book concludes with reflections on how these cases of riverine rights relate to global trends, and discusses the tensions and synergies between human rights and nature’s rights, with a particular emphasis on how Indigenous rights intersect with rivers’ rights. Finally, it argues for a broad notion of riverine rights that includes those who live by the river, and beyond riverine rights, to the social, cultural and political dimensions of the legal innovations, and to the larger environmental crises they seek to address.
This interdisciplinary book will be essential reading for academics and researchers across social sciences and law with an interest in how social struggles, environmental justice and innovative legislation intersect for the wellbeing of rivers and their people. The book is also relevant for policy makers, activists and others with an interest in rights of nature.
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About the Author
Axel Borchgrevink is Professor of Development Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo. He has done research in Latin America, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines and New Zealand, and worked with issues of rural development and resource politics, civil society and indigenous rights, and development aid. He is the author of Clean and Green: Knowledge and Morality in a Philippine Farming Community and has also co-edited the book Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America. He is the project leader of Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers.
Malene K. Brandshaug is a postdoctoral fellow at Department of International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the School of Global Studies at University of Gothenburg (2020), Sweden. Her decade-long ethnographic specialisation in water and Peru, is amplified by her recent work on human-water relations and environmental activism in Norway, and on international currents regarding Rights of Rivers. She is currently working on her postdoctoral project Rights of Waters: An Ethnographic Study of Human-Environment Relations and Local Mobilisation in Norway, and is a member of the research project Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers.
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