Prof. dr. R.A. (Rutgerd) Boelens
Political Ecology of Water in Latin America (special chair of the Stichting Internationaal Amerikanisten Congres)
Faculty of Humanities
CEDLA
Visiting address
- Roetersstraat 31
Postal address
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Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2024
Bourguignon, N., Villamayor-Tomás, S., & Boelens, R. (2024). Fabricating Irrigators: Contested Hydrosocial Territories and Subject-Making in Spain’s Tagus–Segura Interbasin Transfer Arena. Water, 16(2), Article 192. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16020192 [details]- Hoogesteger, J., Suhardiman, D., Veldwisch, G. J., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Boelens, R. (2024). Water, Food, and Irrigation. In S. Hellberg, F. Söderbaum, A. Swain, & J. Öjendal (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Water and Development (pp. 209-219). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003095545-24 [details]
- Porada, H., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2024). Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen’s extractive territorialization. Political Geography, 108, Article 103001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103001 [details]
2023
- Boelens, R. A., Perreault, T., & Vos, J. (2023). Justicia hídrica, poder y solidaridad. (Agua y Sociedad). Abya Yala.
- Boelens, R., Escobar, A., Bakker, K., Hommes, L., Swyngedouw, E., Hogenboom, B., Huijbens, E. H., Jackson, S., Vos, J., Harris, L. M., Joy, K. J., de Castro, F., Duarte-Abadía, B., Tubino de Souza, D., Lotz-Sisitka, H., Hernández-Mora, N., Martínez-Alier, J., Roca-Servat, D., Perreault, T., ... Wantzen, K. M. (2023). Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3), 1125–1156. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810 [details]
- Brackel, L., Boelens, R., Bruins, B., Doorn, N., & Pesch, U. (2023). People in PowerPoint Pixels: Competing justice claims and scalar politics in water development planning. Political Geography, 107, Article 102974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102974 [details]
- Duarte-Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Buitrago, E. (2023). Neoliberal commensuration and new enclosures of the commons: mining and market–environmentalism governmentalities. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(7), 1480-1500 . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2021.1913216 [details]
- Hofstetter, M., Bolding, A., & Boelens, R. (2023). Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland. International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1256 [details]
- Hofstetter, M., Bolding, A., & Boelens, R. (2023). Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons. Water (Switzerland), 15(21), Article 3736. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15213736 [details]
- Hommes, L., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2023). The need to acknowledge, study and engage with new water justice movements. PLOS Water, 2(5), Article e0000128. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000128 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Bolding, A., Sanchis-Ibor, C., Veldwisch, G. J., Venot, J-P., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2023). Communality in farmer managed irrigation systems: Insights from Spain, Ecuador, Cambodia and Mozambique. Agricultural Systems, 204, Article 103552. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103552 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Konijnenberg, V., Brackel, L., Kemink, S., Kusters, M., Meester, B., Sanjeev Mehta, A., 't Hart, T., van der Poel, M., van Ommen, P., Boelens, R., & Sanchis-Ibor, C. (2023). Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain. The International Journal of the Commons, 17(1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1216 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Suhardiman, D., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., Duarte‐Abadía , B., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., Liebrand, J., Hernández‐Mora, N., Manorom, K., Veldwisch, G. J., & Vos, J. (2023). River Commoning and the State: A Cross‐Country Analysis of River Defense Collectives. Politics and Governance, 11(2), 280-292. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i2.6316 [details]
- Manosalvas, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2023). Imaginaries of place in territorialization processes: Transforming the Oyacachi páramos through nature conservation and water transfers in the Ecuadorian highlands. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 41(5), 1010-1028. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231168050 [details]
- Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Vos, J. (2023). Resisting, leveraging, and reworking climate change adaptation projects from below: placing adaptation in Ecuador’s agrarian struggle. Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(6), 2283–2311. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2144252 [details]
- Xu, Q., Boelens, R., & Veldwisch, G. J. (2023). The evolution of China’s rural water governance: water, techno-political development and state legitimacy. Journal of Peasant Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2261860
- van den Berge, J., Scheunpflug, L., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2023). Social movements in defense of public water services: the case of Spain. Frontiers in Water, 5, Article 1200440. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.1200440 [details]
2022
- Boelens, R. A. (2022). Eau, territoire et conflit. Accaparement, discipline et luttes pour des territoires hydrosociaux plus justes. In C. Nicolas-Artero, S. Velut, G. Schneier-Madanes, F. Poupeau, & C. Chavarochette (Eds.), Luttes pour l’eau dans les Amériques (pp. 122-146). Éditions de l'IHEAL. https://books.openedition.org/iheal/10169#bibliography
- Hommes, L., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure. Political Geography, 97, Article 102698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102698 [details]
- Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., & Hoogesteger, J. (2022). Climate change and water justice. In T. M. Letcher (Ed.), Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues (pp. 399-418). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99875-8.00014-8 [details]
- Reyes Escate, L., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Water assemblages in hydrosocial territories: Connecting place, space, and time through the cultural-material signification of water in coastal Peru. Geoforum, 135, 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.005 [details]
- Xu, Q., Boelens, R., & Veldwisch, G. J. (2022). Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from below. Political Geography, 97, Article 102703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102703 [details]
- van den Berge, J., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 38(1), 173-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1898347 [details]
2021
- Boelens, R. (2021). Large-scale water infrastructure, territorial transformation and water rights dispossession. In J. W. Dellapenna, & J. Gupta (Eds.), Water Law (pp. 425-437). (Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law; Vol. X). Edward Elgar Publishing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477005.X.32 [details]
- Boelens, R. (2021). Water justice: Blatant grabbing practices, subtle recognition politics and the struggles for fair water worlds. In B. Coolsaet (Ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues (pp. 207-221). (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429029585-18 [details]
- Manosalvas, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2021). Contractual Reciprocity and the Re-Making of Community Hydrosocial Territories: The Case of La Chimba in the Ecuadorian páramos . Water (Switzerland), 13(11), Article 1600. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13111600 [details]
- Prieto López, A., Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2021). Territory in conflict: land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(6), 996-1020. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1854693 [details]
- Shah, E., & Boelens, R. (2021). The moralization of hydraulics: Reflections on the normative-political dimensions of water control technology. Geoforum, 121, 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.009 [details]
- Shah, E., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., Boelens, R., & Duarte-Abadía, B. (2021). Environmental Justice Movements in Globalizing Networks: A Critical Discussion on Social Resistance against Large Dams. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(5), 1008–1032. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1669566 [details]
- van den Berge, J., Vos, J., Boelens, R., Kishimoto, S., & Jonker, P. (2021). Interview article: water movements’ defense of the right to water. From the European arena to the Dutch exception. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 438-457. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.2013001 [details]
2020
- Dupuits, E., Baud, J., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., & Hogenboom, B. (2020). Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America. Ecological Economics, 172, Article 106625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106625 [details]
- García-Mollá, M., Ortega-Reig, M., Boelens, R., & Sanchis-Ibor, C. (2020). Hybridizing the commons. Privatizing and outsourcing collective irrigation management after technological change in Spain. World Development, 132, Article 104983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104983 [details]
- Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Bleeker, S., Duarte Abadia, B., Stoltenborg, D., Vos, J., & Roldán, D. (2020). Gubernamentalidades del agua: la conformación de los territorios hidrosociales, los trasvases de agua y los sujetos rurales-urbanos en América Latina. A&P Continuidad, 7(12), 10-19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v7i12.247 [details]
- Mena Vásconez, P., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2020). Roses: the latest chapter in the conflicted history of controlling irrigation water in the Ecuadorian Andes. Water History, 12(2), 205-226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-020-00250-8 [details]
- Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Vos, J. (2020). Governmentalities, hydrosocial territories & recognition politics: The making of objects and subjects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador. Geoforum, 115, 90-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.06.024 [details]
- Vos, J., Boelens, R., Venot, J.-P., & Kuper, M. (2020). Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework. Ecological Economics, 173, Article 106651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106651 [details]
- van den Berge, J., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2020). How the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Water and Sanitation is a Human Right!’ Changed EU Discourse on Water Services Provision. Utrecht Law Review, 16(2), 48-59. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.36633/ulr.568 [details]
2019
- Baud, J. M., Boelens, R. A., & Damonte, G. (2019). Nuevos capitalismos y transformaciones territoriales en la Región Andina. Estudios Atacameños, 63, 195-208. https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0033
- Baud, M., Boelens, R., de Castro, F., Hogenboom, B., Klaufus, C., Koonings, K., & Ypeij, A. (2019). Commoning Xela: Negotiating collective spaces around a Central American intermediate city. Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 108, 267-279. https://doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.10584 [details]
- Boelens, R. (2019). Towers of indifference: Water and politics in Latin America. In J. Cupples, M. Palomino-Schalscha, & M. Prieto (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (pp. 432-445). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315162935-38 [details]
- Boelens, R., Shah, E., & Bruins, B. (2019). Contested Knowledges: Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development. Water (Switzerland), 11(3), Article 416. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030416 [details]
- Damonte, G., & Boelens, R. (2019). Hydrosocial territories, agro-export and water scarcity: capitalist territorial transformations and water governance in Peru’s coastal valleys. Water International, 44(2), 206-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1556869 [details]
- Duarte Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & du Pré, L. (2019). Mobilizing Water Actors and Bodies of Knowledge. The Multi-Scalar Movement against the Río Grande Dam in Málaga, Spain. Water, 11(3), Article 410. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030410 [details]
- Duarte-Abadia, B., & Boelens, R. (2019). Colonizing rural waters: the politics of hydro-territorial transformation in the Guadalhorce Valley, Málaga, Spain. Water International, 44(2), 148-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1578080 [details]
- Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Boelens, R. (2019). Hydraulic Order and the Politics of the Governed: The Baba Dam in Coastal Ecuador. Water (Switzerland), 11(3), Article 409. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030409 [details]
- Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Boelens, R. (2019). The political construction and fixing of water overabundance: Rural–urban flood-risk politics in coastal Ecuador. Water International, 44(2), 169-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1573560 [details]
- Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Bleeker, S., Duarte Abadía, B., Stoltenborg, D., & Vos, J. (2019). Water governmentalities: The shaping of hydrosocial territories, water transfers and rural–urban subjects in Latin America. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space., 3(2), 399-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619886255 [details]
- Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Harris, L. M., & Veldwisch, G. J. (2019). Rural–urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities. Water International, 44(2), 81-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2019.1583311 [details]
- Hoogendam, P., & Boelens, R. (2019). Dams and Damages. Conflicting Epistemological Frameworks and Interests Concerning “Compensation” for the Misicuni Project’s Socio-Environmental Impacts in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Water (Switzerland), 11(3), Article 408. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030408 [details]
- Lopez, R. R., Boelens, R., Vos, J., & Rap, E. (2019). Hydrosocial territories in dispute: Flows of water and power in an interbasin transfer project in Bolivia. Water Alternatives, 12(1), 267-284. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol12/v12issue1/489-a12-1-15 [details]
- Rocha López, R., Hoogendam, P., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2019). Transforming hydrosocial territories and changing languages of water rights legitimation: Irrigation development in Bolivia's Pucara watershed. Geoforum, 102, 202-213. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.012 [details]
- Rodríguez-de-Francisco, J. C., Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2019). Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Securing Resource Flows for the Affluent? Water, 11(6), Article 1282. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11061143 [details]
- Shah, E., Boelens, R., & Bruins, B. (2019). Reflections: Contested Epistemologies on Large Dams and Mega-Hydraulic Development. Water (Switzerland), 11(3), Article 417. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030417 [details]
- Valladares Pasquel, A. C., & Boelens, R. (2019). (Re)territorializaciones en tiempos de ‘revolución ciudadana’: petróleo, minerales y Derechos de la Naturaleza en el Ecuador. Estudios Atacameños, 63, 301-313. https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0030 [details]
- Valladares, C., & Boelens, R. (2019). Mining for Mother Earth. Governmentalities, sacred waters and nature's rights in Ecuador. Geoforum, 100, 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.009 [details]
- Verzijl, A., Boelens, R., & Nunez, O. (2019). Templos modernos y espacios sagrados: Territorios hidrosociales entrelazados en Cuchoquesera, Perú. Estudios Atacameños, 63, 251-274. https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0036 [details]
2018
- Boelens, R., Perreault, T., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Hydrosocial de-patterning and re-composition. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 108-114). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.007 [details]
- Boelens, R., Perreault, T., & Vos, J. (Eds.) (2018). Water justice. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847 [details]
- Boelens, R., Vos, J., & Perreault, T. (2018). Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 1-32). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.001 [details]
- Duarte Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Du Pré, L. (2018). Alianzas antiembalse y luchas hidroepistemológicas. Los retos de la gestión colectiva del agua en el Río Grande, Málaga, España. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 107-126. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13723 [details]
- Dukpa, R. D., Joshi, D., & Boelens, R. (2018). Hydropower development and the meaning of place. Multi-ethnic hydropower struggles in Sikkim, India. Geoforum, 89, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.006 [details]
- Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Boelens, R., & Isch, E. (2018). Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador. Latin American Research Review, 53(3), 517–534. https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.362 [details]
- Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Inundaciones políticamente construidas. El megaproyecto hídrico Chone en Ecuador. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 127-148. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13724 [details]
- Hommes, L., & Boelens, R. (2018). From natural flow to ‘working river’: hydropower development, modernity and socio-territorial transformations in Lima's Rímac watershed. Journal of Historical Geography, 62, 85-95. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.04.001 [details]
- Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Duarte-Abadía, B., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Hoogesteger, J. (2018). Reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories and struggles for water justice. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 151-168). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.010 [details]
- Mena-Vásconez, P., Vos, J., Van Ommen, P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Flores, Acaparamiento del Agua y Responsabilidad Empresarial Social: Certificación de la producción de rosas y reclamos por la justicia ambiental en el Ecuador. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 189-214. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13727 [details]
- Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Governmentality, discourses and struggles over imaginaries and water knowledge. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 276-282). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.018 [details]
- Sanchis Ibor, C., & Boelens, R. (2018). Gobernanza del agua y territorios hidrosociales: del análisis institucional a la ecología política. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 13-28. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13718 [details]
- Sanchis Ibor, C., Boelens, R., & García-Mollá, M. (2018). Cambio tecnológico, privatización y recuperación de la autogestión comunitaria del riego. El caso de Senyera (València). Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 91-106. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13722 [details]
- Shah, E., Liebrand, J., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., & Boelens, R. (2018). The UN World Water Development Report 2016, Water and Jobs: A Critical Review. Development and Change, 49(2), 678-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12395 [details]
- Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2018). Minería de oro: promesas, conflictos y desilusión en Cerro de San Pedro, México. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 169-188. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13726 [details]
- Swyngedouw, E., & Boelens, R. (2018). "… And not a single injustice remains”: Hydro-territorial colonization and techno-political transformations in Spain. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 115-133). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.008 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M., Smit, H., Domínguez Guzmán, C., Fantini, E., Rap, E., van der Zaag, P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Accounting for Water: Questions of Environmental Representation in a Nonmodern World. In S. Lele, E. S. Brondizio, J. Byrne, G. M. Mace, & J. Martinez-Alier (Eds.), Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity (pp. 227-249). (Strüngmann Forum Reports ; No. 23). The MIT Press. [details]
- van den Berge, J., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Uniting diversity to build Europe’s Right2Water movement. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 226-245). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.015 [details]
2017
- Boelens, R., & Hoogesteger, J. (2017). Collective Action, Community and the Peasant Economy in Andean Highland Water Control. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 96-107). (Earthscan Water text series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315174938-9 [details]
- Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., Swyngedouw, E., & Vos, J. (2017). Territorios hidrosociales y gubernamentalidad: un enfoque desde la ecología política. In G. Vila Benites, & C. Bonelli (Eds.), A contracorriente: Agua y conflicto en América Latina (pp. 27-48). (Agua y Sociedad; Vol. 25). Abya Yala. [details]
- Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2017). El páramo de Santurbán, Colombia: disputas de la conceptualización y valoración de un territorio hidrosocial. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 153-178). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
- Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2017). De-colonizing water: Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory. Water History, 9(1), 67-85. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-016-0186-6 [details]
- Hidalgo, J. P., Boelens, R., & Isch López, E. (2017). Sistema multipropósito de agua Jaime Roldós Aguilera: el territorio hidrosocial como escenario de disputa y resistencia. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 109-132). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
- Hommes, L., & Boelens, R. (2017). Urbanizing rural waters: Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima. Political Geography, 57, 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.12.002 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Boelens, R., & Baud, M. (2017). Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 266-281). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267630 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Vos, J., Boelens, R., Crow, B., Lu, F., & Swyngedouw, E. (2017). Introduction: Interweaving water struggles, the making of territory and social justice. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 1-6). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267630 [details]
- Mena-Vásconez, P., Vincent, L., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2017). Fighting over water values: diverse framings of flower and food production with communal irrigation in the Ecuadorian Andes. Water International, 42(4), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1309511 [details]
- Milagros, S., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). The Influence of Large Mining: Restructuring Water Rights among Rural Communities in Apurimac, Peru. Human Organization, 76(3), 215-226. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259.76.3.215 [details]
- Sanchis-Ibor, C., Boelens, R., & Garcia-Molla, M. (2017). Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain. Geoforum, 87, 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.10.002 [details]
- Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2017). Goldmining, Dispossessing the Commons and Multi-Scalar Responses: The Case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 120-130). (Earthscan Water text series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315174938-11 [details]
- Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2017). Minería y conflictos sobre agua y tierra: el caso de la minería de oro en Cerro de San Pedro, México. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 25-50). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
- Valladares , C., & Boelens, R. (2017). Extractivism and the rights of nature: Governmentality, ‘convenient communities’ and epistemic pacts in Ecuador. Environmental Politics, 26(6), 1015-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1338384 [details]
- Verzijl, A., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2017). Grassroots Scalar Politics in the Peruvian Andes: Mobilising Allies to Defend Community Waters in the Upper Pampas Watershed. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 34-45). (Earthscan Water text series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315174938-4 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Boelens, R. (2017). Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 8-23). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267630 [details]
2016
- Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., Swyngedouw, E., Vos, J., & Wester, P. (2016). Hydrosocial territories: A political ecology perspective. Water International, 41(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1134898 [details]
- Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2016). Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: The Santurban hydrosocial highlands territory in Colombia. Water International, 41(1), 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1117271 [details]
- Hommes, L., Boelens, R., & Maat, H. (2016). Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey. Geoforum, 71, 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.015 [details]
- Hoogesteger, J., Boelens, R., & Baud, M. (2016). Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands. Water International, 41(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1130910 [details]
- Mena-Vásconez, P., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2016). Food or flowers? Contested transformations of community food security and water use priorities under new legal and market regimes in Ecuador's highlands. Journal of Rural Studies, 44, 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.02.011 [details]
- Rocha, R., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2016). Territorios hidrosociales y valoración del agua: Perspectivas divergentes sobre los derechos de agua en la Cuenca Pucara, Bolivia. In B. Duarte-Abadía, C. Yacoub, & J. Hoogesteger (Eds.), Gobernanza del Agua: Una mirada desde la ecología política y la justicia hídrica (pp. 153-176). (Agua y Sociedad; No. 24). Abya Yala. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326479956_Gobernanza_del_agua_Una_mirada_desde_la_ecologia_politica_y_la_justicia_hidrica [details]
- Rodríguez de Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2016). Pago por servicios ambientales, ambientalismo de mercado, y la indiferencia hacia el mundo campesino. In B. Duarte Abadía, C. Yacoub, & J. Hoogesteger (Eds.), Gobernanza del Agua: Una mirada desde la ecología política y la justicia hídrica (pp. 109-132). (Agua y Sociedad; No. 24). Abya Yala. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326479956_Gobernanza_del_agua_Una_mirada_desde_la_ecologia_politica_y_la_justicia_hidrica [details]
- Rodríguez-de-Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2016). PES hydrosocial territories: De-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands. Water International, 41(1), 140-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1129686 [details]
- Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2016). Disputes over land and water rights in gold mining: The case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. Water International, 41(3), 447-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1143202 [details]
- Vos, J., & Boelens, R. A. (2016). The Politics and Consequences of Virtual Water Export. In P. Jackson, W. E. L. Spiess, & F. Sultana (Eds.), Eating, Drinking: Surviving: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU (pp. 31-41). (SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42468-2_4 [details]
- Yacoub, C., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2016). Territorios hidrosociales y minería en Cajamarca, Perú: Monitoreos ambientales como herramientas políticas. Agua y Territorio, 7, 163-175. https://doi.org/10.17561/at.v0i7.2971 [details]
- Zeitoun, M., Lankford, B., Krueger, T., Forsyth, T., Carter, R., Hoekstra, A. Y., Taylor, R., Varis, O., Cleaver, F., Boelens, R., Swatuk, L., Tickner, D., Scott, C. A., Mirumachi, N., & Matthews, N. (2016). Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change, 39, 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010 [details]
2015
- Boelens, R. (2015). Water, Power and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes. Abindon, Oxon: Routledge. [details]
- Boelens, R. (2015). Tradiciones de riego y transiciones políticas en los Andes. Iberoamericana, 15(58), 178-183. http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/1530/1163 [details]
- Boelens, R. (2015). Water rights. In K. Albala (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of food issues (pp. 1463-1470). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483346304.n453 [details]
- Boelens, R., & Claudin, V. (2015). Rooted rights systems in turbulent waters: the dynamics of collective fishing rights in La Albufera, Valencia, Spain. Society & Natural Resources, 28(10), 1059-1074. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1024370 [details]
- Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Baud, M. (2015). Water reform governmentality in Ecuador: neoliberalism, centralization, and the restraining of polycentric authority and community rule-making. Geoforum, 64, 281-291. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.07.005 [details]
- Duarte, B., Boelens, R., & Yacoub, C. (2015). Hidroeléctricas: ¿energía limpia o destrucción socioecológica? In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 199-203). Abya Yala. [details]
- Duarte-Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Roa-Avendaño, T. (2015). Hydropower, encroachment and the re-patterning of hydrosocial territory: the case of Hidrosogamoso in Colombia. Human Organization, 74(3), 243-254. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259-74.3.243 [details]
- Peña, F., Duarte, B., Yacoub, C., & Boelens, R. (2015). Agronegocios y concentración de agua en América Latina ¿alimentos, abundancia, desarrollo? In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 33-43). Abya Yala. [details]
- Rodriguez de Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2015). Payment for environmental services: mobilising an epistemic community to construct dominant policy. Environmental Politics, 24(3), 481-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1014658 [details]
- Roth, D., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2015). Property, legal pluralism, and water rights: the critical analysis of water governance and the politics of recognizing "local" rights. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 47(3), 456-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2015.1111502 [details]
- Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2015). Water in global agrifood chains. In K. Albala (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of food issues (pp. 1459-1463). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483346304.n452 [details]
- Yacoub, C., Boelens, R., & Duarte, B. (2015). Empresas extractivas en Latinoamérica. In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 117-124). Abya Yala. [details]
2014
- Boelens, R. (2014). Cultural politics and the hydrosocial cycle: Water, power and identity in the Andean highlands. Geoforum, 57, 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.02.008 [details]
- Boelens, R., & Seemann, M. (2014). Forced engagements: water security and local rights formalization in Yanque, Colca Valley, Peru. Human Organization, 73(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.73.1.d44776822845k515 [details]
- Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2014). Legal pluralism, hydraulic property creation and sustainability: the materialized nature of water rights in user-managed systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 11, 55-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014.10.001 [details]
- Boelens, R., Budds, J., Bury, J., Butler, C., Crow, B., Dill, B., French, A., Harris, L. M., Hoag, C., Kulkarni, S., Langridge, R., Lu, F., Norris, T. B., Ocampo-Raeder, C., Perrault, T., Romano, S., Spronk, S., Srinivasan, V., Tucker, C. M., & Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2014). Santa Cruz declaration on the global water crisis. Water International, 39(2), 246-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2014.886936 [details]
- Rodriguez de Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2014). Payment for environmental services and power in the Chamachán watershed, Ecuador. Human Organization, 73(4), 351-362. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.73.4.b680w75u27527061 [details]
- Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2014). Sustainability standards and the water question. Development and Change, 45(2), 205-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12083 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Boelens, R. (2014). Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action. Water International, 39(2), 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2014.891168 [details]
2005
- Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2005). Anomalous water rights and the politics of normalization: Collective water control and privatization policies in the andean region. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 97-123). Rutgers University Press.
- Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2005). Prices and politics in andean water reforms. Development and Change, 36(4), 735-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00432.x
- Boelens, R., Zwarteveen, M., & Roth, D. (2005). Legal complexity in the analysis of water rights and water resources management. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 1-20). Rutgers University Press.
- Roth, D., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (Eds.) (2005). Liquid relations: Contested water rights and legal complexity. Rutgers University Press.
- Zwarteveen, M., Roth, D., & Boelens, R. (2005). Water rights and legal pluralism: Beyond analysis and recognition. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 254-268). Rutgers University Press.
2003
- Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2003). The politics of Andean water policy reforms: Local and indigenous rights in the context of privatization policies. Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik, 19(4), 56-76. https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-19-4-56
2022
- Venot, J-P., Vos, J., Molle, F., Zwarteveen, M., Veldwisch, G. J., Kuper, M., Mdee, A., Ertsen, M., Boelens, R., Cleaver, F., Lankford, B., Swatuk, L., Linton, J., Harris, L. M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Kooy, M., & Schwartz, K. (2022). A bridge over troubled waters. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 92. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00835-y [details]
2021
- Boelens, R., Forigua-Sandoval, J., Duarte-Abadía, B., & Gutiérrez-Camargo, J. C. (2021). River lives, River movements. Fisher communities mobilizing local and official rules in defense of the Magdalena River. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 458-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.2012376 [details]
2018
- Melsen, L. A., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2018). What is the role of the model in socio-hydrology? Discussion of “Prediction in a socio-hydrological world”*. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 63(9), 1435-1443. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1499025 [details]
- Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Conclusions: struggles for justice in a changing water world. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 346-360). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.023 [details]
- Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Re-politicizing water allocation. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 34-42). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.002 [details]
- Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2018). Neoliberal water governmentalities, virtual water trade, and contestations. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 283-301). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.019 [details]
- Vos, J., Perreault, T., & Boelens, R. (2018). Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-decision. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 188-192). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.012 [details]
2017
- Boelens, R., Crow, B., Hoogesteger, J., Lu, F., Swyngedouw, E., & Vos, J. (Eds.) (2017). Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle. (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267630 [details]
2016
- Boelens, R. (2016). Foreword: Divergent Water Securities and the Politics of Formalization. In M. Seemann (Ed.), Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia (pp. vii-x). (Environment, Politics and Social Change). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137545237 [details]
2015
- Boelens, R., Damonte, G., Seemann, M., Duarte, B., & Yacoub, C. (2015). Despojo del agua en Latinoamérica: introducción a la ecología política del agua en los agronegocios, la minería y las hidroeléctricas. In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 11-29). Abya Yala. [details]
- Yacoub, C., Duarte, B., & Boelens, R. (Eds.) (2015). Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica. Abya Yala. [details]
2014
- Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Rodriguez de Francisco, J. C. (2014). Commoditizing water territories? The clash between Andean water rights cultures and payment for environmental service policies. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 25(3), 84-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2013.876867 [details]
2018
- Ypeij, A. (Author), Hogenboom, B. (Author), Klaufus, C. (Author), de Castro, F. (Author), Koonings, K. (Author), Baud, M. (Author), & Boelens, R. (Author). (2018). Xela stories of transformation: A commons perspectives on (peri-)urban resource use, territoriality, and cultural representation. Web publication or website, CEDLA-UvA. http://www.cedla.uva.nl/40_events/2018/Xela_blog1.html [details]
2015
- Boelens, R. (2015). Water justice in Latin America: the politics of difference, equality, and indifference. CEDLA, University of Amsterdam. http://www.cedla.uva.nl/20_research/pdf/Boelens/R.Boelens-Water_Justice_in_Latin_America-The_Politics_of_Difference_Equality_and_Indifference.pdf [details]
2021
2020
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Bourguignon, N., Villamayor-Tomás, S., & Boelens, R. (2024). Fabricating Irrigators: Contested Hydrosocial Territories and Subject-Making in Spain’s Tagus–Segura Interbasin Transfer Arena. Water, 16(2), Article 192.