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Overview

Rutgerd Boelens is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, general agricultural and biological sciences, and ocean engineering.

The work of Rutgerd Boelens concentrates on several key topics including water governance and infrastructure, hydropower, displacement, and environmental impact, geographies of human-animal interactions, agriculture, land use and rural development, water resources management and optimization, environmental law and policy, and mining and resource management.

Boelens has contributed to multiple publications in notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Geoforum
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Political Geography
  • Water
  • International Journal of the Commons

Their recent papers cover a range of subjects related to water justice, hydrosocial territories, and commons struggles. Selected works include:

  • "Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice," published in 2022 in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure," 2022 in Political Geography
  • "Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America," 2020 in Ecological Economics
  • "Governmentalities, hydrosocial territories & recognition politics: The making of objects and subjects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador," 2020 in Geoforum
  • "Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework," 2020 in Ecological Economics

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Jeroen Vos
  • Jaime Hoogesteger
  • Gert Jan Veldwisch
  • Bibiana Duarte-Abadía
  • Margreet Zwarteveen

Boelens has also contributed to book publications, notably with Rutgers University Press, publishing "Liquid Relations" in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos

  • Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

    Margreet Z. Zwarteveen;Rutgerd Boelens

  • Cultural politics and the hydrosocial cycle: Water, power and identity in the Andean highlands

    Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens

  • The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jeroen Vos

  • Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

    Mark Zeitoun;Bruce Lankford;Tobias Krueger;Tim Forsyth

  • The Politics of Disciplining Water Rights

    Rutgerd Boelens

  • Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

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  • Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey

    Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Harro Maat

  • Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Rutgerd Boelens;David H. Getches;Armando Guevara-Gil

  • Urbanizing rural waters : Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima

    Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens

  • Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands

    Jaime Hoogesteger;Rutgerd Boelens;Michiel Baud

  • The rules of the game and the game of the rules : normalization and resistance in Andean water control

    R.A. Boelens

  • Prices and Politics in Andean Water Reforms

    Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen

  • Water reform governmentality in Ecuador: neoliberalism, centralization, and the restraining of polycentric authority and community rule-making

    Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Michiel Baud

  • Water, Power and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes

    Rutgerd Boelens

  • Searching for equity: conceptions of justice and equity in peasant irrigation.

    R. Boelens;G. Dávila

  • Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

    Dik Roth;Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen

  • Water rights and empowerment

    Rutgerd Boelens;Paul Hoogendam

  • Formal Law and Local Water Control in the Andean Region: A Fiercely Contested Field

    Hugo De Vos;Rutgerd Boelens;Rocio Bustamante

  • Hydropower, Encroachment and the Re-patterning of Hydrosocial Territory: The Case of Hidrosogamoso in Colombia

    Bibiana Duarte-Abadía;Rutgerd Boelens;Tatiana Roa-Avendaño

  • The Battlefield of Water Rights: Rule Making Amidst Conflicting Normative Frameworks in the Ecuadorian Highlands

    Rutgerd Boelens;Bernita Doornbos

  • Payment for Environmental Services and Unequal Resource Control in Pimampiro, Ecuador

    Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco;Jessica Budds;Rutgerd Boelens

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Olli Varis
Olli Varis Aalto University
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Philippus Wester
Philippus Wester International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Richard G. Taylor
Richard G. Taylor University College London
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science

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