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 Natural entities • River as a subject • Venice • Social-ecological transformation • Multispecies • Po River • Sensory ethnography • Spatial design • Deep ecology • Poetry • Co-creation • Embodied knowledges • Water governance • Charter of the Rights • Legal personality • Drawing • Decolonisation • Rights of Nature • Placed-based art research • Temporalities • Socio-ecological systems • Making • Reuss-Initiative • Institutional design, Green Legal Theory • Ecocentrism • Collaboration • Bioregional governance • Care • Literature • Buen Vivir • Civic design • Constitution • Walking • Colère publique • Wales • More-than-humandesign • More-than-Human • Orthopedics of waters • Commons • Artistic research • Water bodies • Situated practice • Embodiment • Posthumanism • River Taff • Lake Vättern • Affective pedagogy • More-than-human rights • Imaginaries • Legal personhood • River justice • Biopolitics • Water • Collective • Amphibious living • Altered nature • Relationality • Representation • Venice Lagoon • Fundamental rights • Ceremony • Democracy • Ethics • Degrowth • Aquatic doppelgängers • Landscape • Multi-species stewardship • Political legibility • Hydrofeminism • Subjectification • Pedagogy • Ecofeminism • Ecological justice • Listening • Overview effect • Environmental humanities • Meuse • Belonging • Sketchbooks • Hydro bodies • North Sea • Voice • Limits • Siphonophorae Society • Conviviality • Rights for Nature • Textile • Rights of nature • Waterbodies • Sedimenting • Somatic listening • Unlearning • Local ecological knowledge • River personhood • Ontological politics • Mar Menor
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2026/01 | Pubblicato 06 Agosto 2026 | Lingua en
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