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Floden som rättighetsbärare - En kvalitativ dokumentanalys av Kukama-kvinnors mobilisering mot oljeexploatering vid floden Marañón

Jönsson Vera, Marina LU (2026) HEKK03 20252
Department of Human Geography
Human Ecology
Abstract (Swedish)
This thesis examines how Kukama women in the Peruvian Amazon have mobilized against oil extraction along the Marañón River and how the recognition of the river’s rights can be understood within Peru’s historical and contemporary context of neo-extractivism. Using Feminist Political Ecology as an analytical framework, the study analyzes documents related to the rights-of-nature lawsuit led by Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana. The findings show that the mobilization is grounded in territorial, bodily, and cosmological relations to the river and articulated through legal strategies shaped by limited political space. While the recognition of the Marañón River as a rights-bearing entity has created new avenues for political action, the case also... (More)
This thesis examines how Kukama women in the Peruvian Amazon have mobilized against oil extraction along the Marañón River and how the recognition of the river’s rights can be understood within Peru’s historical and contemporary context of neo-extractivism. Using Feminist Political Ecology as an analytical framework, the study analyzes documents related to the rights-of-nature lawsuit led by Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana. The findings show that the mobilization is grounded in territorial, bodily, and cosmological relations to the river and articulated through legal strategies shaped by limited political space. While the recognition of the Marañón River as a rights-bearing entity has created new avenues for political action, the case also reveals the structural constraints facing rights-of-nature initiatives in extractivist contexts. The study contributes empirically to research on Indigenous environmental resistance and critically engages with the possibilities and limits of Rights of Nature as a juridical tool. (Less)
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author
Jönsson Vera, Marina LU
supervisor
organization
course
HEKK03 20252
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Rights of Nature, neo-extractivism, Feminist Political Ecology, cosmology, territory, Marañón River, Kukama
language
Swedish
id
9218063
date added to LUP
2026-03-05 15:55:52
date last changed
2026-03-05 15:55:52
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  abstract     = {{This thesis examines how Kukama women in the Peruvian Amazon have mobilized against oil extraction along the Marañón River and how the recognition of the river’s rights can be understood within Peru’s historical and contemporary context of neo-extractivism. Using Feminist Political Ecology as an analytical framework, the study analyzes documents related to the rights-of-nature lawsuit led by Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana. The findings show that the mobilization is grounded in territorial, bodily, and cosmological relations to the river and articulated through legal strategies shaped by limited political space. While the recognition of the Marañón River as a rights-bearing entity has created new avenues for political action, the case also reveals the structural constraints facing rights-of-nature initiatives in extractivist contexts. The study contributes empirically to research on Indigenous environmental resistance and critically engages with the possibilities and limits of Rights of Nature as a juridical tool.}},
  author       = {{Jönsson Vera, Marina}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Floden som rättighetsbärare - En kvalitativ dokumentanalys av Kukama-kvinnors mobilisering mot oljeexploatering vid floden Marañón}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}