Photo: courtesy of the artist
Our Violent Hydrocommons
Water extractivism, in all its varied forms, continues this occupation of territories by a world that gives itself the right to assimilate local realities in the name of the “common good” of progress. Water privatization, pipelines, and large-scale infrastructures that bury and contaminate bodies of water are the ongoing legacy of the colonial doctrine of terra nullius, which actively produces space for the expansion of a one-world world, by making absent other worlds.
