Thursday, May 28, at 7 p.m. in Room 122, Phase 1 auditorium on Eastern Washington University’s Spokane campus, Dr. Rutgerd Boelens will present, “Indigenous Water Rights and Cultural Politics: Struggles Against Inequality, Misrecognition and Indifference in Latin America.”
Boelens’ lecture is sponsored by EWU through its partnership with the UNESCO Chair in Environmental History’s research and teaching project on water and indigenous peoples. This partnership is a collaborative effort with the University of Arizona, Washington State University and numerous other international and regional institutions. The project is designed to explore how indigenous peoples around the world have sought to manage the challenges of global and regional political and economic changes and their collective impact on community water resources.
As the professor of Political Ecology of Water in Latin America with the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, at the University of Amsterdam, Boelens is a leading expert on indigenous water rights. In addition to his professorship, Boelens also works as the senior researcher at Wageningen University, is a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Peru and held the 2013-2014 Chair of Territorial Studies at the Mexican Science Foundation at COLSAN.
He directs the international Water Justice Alliance and in this capacity is engaged in research and training on water accumulation, conflict and civil society action. Additional research interests focuses on water rights, legal pluralism, indigenous water management, cultural politics, “govern-mentality” in hydro-social territories and social mobilization in Latin America and Spain.
Boelens’ lecture is free and open to the public.
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