International Seminar 'Water Commoning Struggles'

We are pleased to invite you to the International Seminar 'Water Commoning Struggles' organised by the Riverhood & River Commons projects (www.movingrivers.org). This event will take place on the 5th of July at Gaia 2 (Wageningen University campus), from 14.00 to 17.30.

The seminar will focus on the problem that many of today's water dispossession and accumulation practices find their legitimation in discourses of efficiency, arguments of rationality and state-, elite- and market-centred ontologies and epistemologies. Next, it addresses alternatives based on water commoning struggles and commons (co-)governance initiatives. Building on the Riverhood and River Commons projects, it understands water commons as "networked socio-ecological systems that integrate social and natural communities to practice water governance based on mutual interdependence in terms of shared livelihood interests, knowledge and values".