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Interview with WRM Professor Rutgerd Boelens: on expert knowledge, power and decolonization
In a recent article published on the online platform Vice Versa, WRM Prof. Rutgerd Boelens and Dr. Nitin Rai reflect on how knowledge production often continues to be dominated by Western, colonial ideas that impede just and diverse development.
In the recently started projects Riverhood and River Commons, Boelens and his colleagues aim to explore new ways of knowledge production about rivers: transdisciplinary, grassroots and cross-cultural. Together with local residents, activist and phd researchers, Prof. Rugerd Boelens will work on how to co-create and decolonize knowledge about water management and thinking about rivers.
Read more about the interesting reflections by Boelens and Rai in the article on Vice Versa (in Dutch).
See a related interesting read from Prof. Rutgerd Boelens on the 'Riverhood' and the politics of (mis)recognizing local water cultures and water rights systems (in English).