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27/09/25
 
More-than-Human Un/Commoning
Plenary Session 1 Chair: Franz Krause, Universität Köln Projects of commoning and uncommoning are not limited to human participants and contestants. In multiple environmental movements, Indigenous organisations and local communities, un/commoning means relating with non-human beings, elements, and spirits. By expanding the boundaries of commoning beyond human communities, this plenary challenges the anthropocentric limitations of traditional […]
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Astrid Ulloa Cubillos
30/09/25
The Relational Paths Of Water
Wayuu Women Positioning Collective Relationships Around Water In La Guajira, Colombia
La Guajira is a region highly susceptible to desertification. It is one of the areas of Colombia most affected by climate change, experiencing intense droughts and severe water scarcity. The Wayuu people make up the largest Indigenous population in Colombia, numbering around 380,000, almost half of the population in La Guajira. They have legal rights […]
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Liana Chua
28/09/25
Uncommoning conservation?
In our research on orangutan conservation, my colleagues and I have often noted a fundamental tension—an uncommonality, if you will—that arises at the interface between conservation interventions and the rural communities with whom they work in Borneo and Sumatra. This is a tension between the imaginary of an encompassing, territorial, planetary commons, on the one […]
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