Recovering Community 3
Published: 5 November 2021
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About the River Atrato in Colombia, and the project that supports local communities fighting to uphold its status as a bearer of rights.
In this episode of the Recovering Community podcast for COP26, Professor Anne Kerr talks to colleagues Professor Mo Hume and Dr Allan Gillies, and artist Jan Nimmo to hear about the Colombia River Stories project.
This interdisciplinary research project, is a collaboration between the universities of Glasgow, Portsmouth and Nottingham. It combines art, song, citizen science and activism to respond to the court ruling T-622, which recognises the River Atrato as a bearer of rights.
The ruling demands actions to address the socio-environmental devastation of conflict-linked, illegal mechanised gold mining in the collective territories of Chocó's Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities.
The project supports the local communities as they push for the full implementation of T-622 in the face of an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region.
Listen to Recovering Community 3 on the School of Social and Politiclal Sciences website
First published: 5 November 2021
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Recovering Community is a podcast series about community - what it means, how it's formed and how it is rebuilt - published by the University of Glasgow's School of Political and Social Sciences.
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