A Postcolonial Marxist Critique of the River‐as‐Subject: Situating the Atrato River in Its Development Aporias

In 2016, Colombia's Constitutional Court declared the Atrato River a subject with rights and named the river's environmental stewards. This article traces how various actors co‐produced the ruling and critically engages scholarly calls to theorise a river‐as‐subject ontology. Centring post...

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Published in:	Antipode Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 1754 - 1774
Main Author:	Melo‐Ascencio, Diego Alejandro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2024
Subjects:	Atrato River Constitutional courts Constitutional law Degradation development Discourse Environmental justice Exploitation Gold Hegemony Marxist analysis Mining Mining industry Multiculturalism & pluralism Ontology Pacific Lowlands Personhood Plaintiffs Postcolonialism Rights rights of nature Rivers river‐as‐subject Colombia Atrato River
ISSN:	0066-4812, 1467-8330
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