Indigenous Water Ontologies, Hydro-Development and the Human/More-Than-Human Right to Water: A Call for Critical Engagement with Plurilegal Water Realities

Water conflicts across the world are bringing to the fore fundamental challenges to the anthropocentric boundaries of the human rights paradigm. Engaging with the multi-layered legal ethnographic setting of the Xalalá dam project in Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, I will critically and empiric...

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Main Author: Lieselotte Viaene
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/12/1660