Water Bodies of Europe – flows, obstacles, convergences and ways forwards
We invite all water bodies to contribute to a special issue / anthology about Rights of Nature and water representation in Europe. All contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews from the perspectives of law, academia, artistic, activism are welcome!
The unprecedented effects that humans are imposing on Earth are beyond questioning. We humans and our fellow beings of the natural world need to come together in powerful ways making survival possible on an overheated planet. Based on the shifted conditions of coexistence between bodies of water (in humans and outside) around Earth, the Confluence of European Water Bodies, have declared the urgent need for recognition of Right of Nature (RoN), together with the development of a political representation that functions through a direct relation with humans.
In 2023 and 2024 confluences we met to learn in practice from each other and support each other’s work. Ahead of our next wave we are now calling all water bodies to bring together experiences of flows, obstacles, convergences and ways forwards on by words for a joint collection to be published either as an anthology or as a special issue in a journal. We hope this mutual leaning will weave a deeper relationship among us that may last beyond our current climate emergency into the future of human and more-than-human nature. What is at stake is not whether we are in a new era of emergency, but what types of mass mobilisation strategies we should make use of.
Water bodies publication
In a special publication we will bring together original journal articles and essays on our various experiences as a collective of water bodies. We are looking forward to contributions from the perspectives of 1) Law 2) Academia 3) Artistic 4) Activism.
To this special issue / anthology we welcome analytical, empirical, theoretical and methodological contributions from various disciplines and theoretical approaches, such as gender studies, ecofeminism, history, geology, indigenous studies, decolonial theories, environmental humanities, feminist posthumanities, feminist animal studies, new materialism, and feminist STS etc. We welcome contributions in the form of research articles, essays, artworks, opinion pieces, book reviews, and further comments thereon in keeping with editorial policy.
We invite contributions focusing on different aspects of Rights of Nature and Water Bodies in relation to the following themes (but not restricted to):
- Ecological justice
- Vulnerability
- Resilience
- Care and common survival
- Degrowth
- Ecological grief
- Hydrofeminism
- Embodiment
- Ecohealth
- Institutions
Info & planning
- Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words + author bio of ca. 100 words): August 25 2025
- First editorial meeting: 22 September 2025
- Deadline for articles: 1 February 2026
- Envisaged publication date: 15 March 2026
Abstracts should be submitted to: info@ambassadevandenoordzee.nl and / or martin.hultman@chalmers.se