Rights of Nature and European Water Bodies: Ways of Relating from the Confluence
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- Pietro Consolandi - University of Southampton - email
- Martin Hultman - University of Gothenburg - email
- Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings - University of Iceland - email
- Julia Schasfoort - Delft University of Technology - email
Building on a diverse wealth of contributions around the topic of Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, this Special Issue stems from the artists, activists and academics, water people who animate the Confluence of European Water Bodies network. The essays focus on different ways of relating with water bodies in order to grant them recognition before the law and within more-than-human systems of law and governance. The Special Issues contributes to the lively discussion on how to move beyond anthropocentric environmental law and policy, giving voice to the web of life in which we are entangled and the grassroots, marginalised communities participating in this struggle. The geographical focus on Europe shows the manifold points of view within the continent, often described as late in joining the RoN movement or culturally allergic to any kind of ecocentric shift.
Keywords Co-creation • Waterbodies • River as a subject • Affective pedagogy • Ontological politics • Situated practice • Landscape • Degrowth • Venice Lagoon • Orthopedics of waters • Overview effect • Legal personality • Bioregional governance • Care • Temporalities • River Taff • Hydro bodies • Water • Unlearning • Ceremony • Spatial design • Literature • Artistic research • Democracy • More-than-Human • Environmental humanities • Water governance • Limits • Altered nature • Collective • Relationality • Walking • Water bodies • Reuss-Initiative • Multi-species stewardship • Socio-ecological systems • Representation • Meuse • Ecological justice • Sketchbooks • Drawing • Siphonophorae Society • Colère publique • Charter of the Rights • Subjectification • Amphibious living • Civic design • Voice • Constitution • Legal personhood • Sensory ethnography • Placed-based art research • Imaginaries • Venice • River justice • More-than-humandesign • Conviviality • More-than-human rights • Fundamental rights • Rights of Nature • Embodied knowledges • Ecofeminism • Listening • Ethics • Institutional design, Green Legal Theory • Embodiment • North Sea • Hydrofeminism • Aquatic doppelgängers • River personhood • Poetry • Political legibility • Local ecological knowledge • Deep ecology • Wales • Decolonisation • Ecocentrism • Mar Menor • Collaboration • Social-ecological transformation • Textile • Multispecies • Somatic listening • Buen Vivir • Natural entities • Sedimenting • Biopolitics • Rights for Nature • Lake Vättern • Po River • Pedagogy • Belonging • Posthumanism • Rights of nature • Making • Commons
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