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You are cordially invited to attend the Moving Rivers Webinar Series organized by Riverhood and River Commons (Wageningen University), every two months. The Moving Rivers Webinar Series seeks to actively promote exchanges between theory and practice on river regeneration, socio-ecological justice and the formulation of more equitable water policies. To learn more about the Riverhood and River Commons projects please visit our website: https://movingrivers.org/.

The next Moving Rivers webinar, entitled “Rivers as Spaces of Contestations: Citizen Science and Activist Research Approaches” will take place on June 16, 2023 / 15:00 – 16:30 CET

Registration form:  https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d8b209b1-fe82-40cf-be21-aca10eefcdb9@27d137e5-761f-4dc1-af88-d26430abb18f

  

Rivers as Spaces of Contestations: Citizen Science and Activist Research Approaches

People’s science, citizen science, activist research, and science-policy-stakeholder interaction (SPSI) are all different forms of co-production of knowledge. They are gaining increased attention in water management and riverine contestations and conflicts, because of their potential to bring together the lived experiences, knowledges, interests, and values of different stakeholders and produce more syncretic knowledge. This could help in participatory water management, and even be the first step towards conflict transformation. The session will engage with some of the actual experiences of citizen science and activist research in India in the context of groundwater management and riverine conflicts. The session will try to problematize these experiences, especially their participatory and/or coproduction character, and explore ways to make them more participatory and transformative.

 

Speakers

Tanvi Agrawal / PhD researcher - Wageningen University

Tanvi Agrawal is an aspiring human-environment geographer, and a PhD researcher in WUR’s River Commons project. Her work focusses on the political ecology of water science and governance in the Cauvery delta in India.

KJ Joy / Researcher/Activist /SOPPECOM

K. J. Joy, an activist-researcher, works with SOPPECOM, India. His interests include democratization of natural resource governance, water conflicts, environmental justice, social movements and people’s alternatives. He is part of networks like Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India, India River Forum and Vikalp Sangam (Alternative Confluences). His latest co-edited book is Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts. 

 

We look forward to having you attend the event!