Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung 13d ago

Water is at the center of the struggle for life. Modern civilization's dep endence on capitalist formations has led to the destruction of ecosystems and water-bodies as sacred entities. Rivers and mudflats, as complex hybrid networks, reveal ways of living amid a planetary crisis and can offer creative socio-ecological care practices. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean, Denisse Roca-Servat, proposes to think with water as a point of departure for envisioning alternatives to the extractive-capitalist model. Becoming river, therefore, implies considering geo-hydro-social diversity, its historical foundations, its multi-scalar assemblages, and ultimately, committing to build alternative hydrosocial relations, intersecting decolonial, feminist, and cosmopolitical justice approaches. Prof. Denisse Roca-Servat is a distinguished scholar in environmental justice and political ecology, holding a PhD in Justice Studies from Arizona State University, USA. Currently serving as a professor at the Institute of Reg ional Studies (INER) at the University of Antioquia in Colombia, she is a prominent researcher in political ecology, water justice, decolonial theories of politics and law, and ecofeminist studies. Her research centers on the struggle for commons and alternatives to development in the face of extractivism, particularly through the lens of Latin American environmental thinking. She is the founder of the "Group for the Study of Political Ecology and Water Justice" (Grupo de estudio de Ecología política y justicia hídrica - GEEPJH), where she collaborates in trans and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of environmental politics and social justice. 🔔 Subscribe for more lectures on social justice, ecology, and decolonial thought. #EnvironmentalJustice #PoliticalEcology #WaterJustice #Decoloniality #Ecofeminism