When Water Speaks: Westerwoldse Aa at the Hongerige Wolf Festival
In July 2025, researchers working on the Westerwoldse Aa case study participated in the Hongerige Wolf Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands, as part of the citizen initiative From Aa to Sea. The initiative seeks to reconnect people with the riverscape and estuary of the Westerwoldse Aa through ecological restoration, storytelling and collective reflection. The festival […]
Permeable Rivers: Rethinking Care, Irrigation and Environmentalism
A recent article published in the Journal of Political Ecology explores the social and ecological tensions surrounding traditional irrigation systems and river restoration in southern Spain. Focusing on the river-acequia networks of the Vega de Granada, the research highlights how rivers are not only water flows, but also living socioecological systems shaped by memory, […]