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Lieselotte Viaene

Lieselotte Viaene
  • Professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the University Carlos III de Madrid and Principal Investigator of the (ERC) Project Rivers

Lieselotte Viaene, a Belgian-Flemish anthropologist with a PhD in Law, 2011, is Principal Investigator of the Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) RIVERS-Water/human rights beyond the human? Indigenous water ontologies, plurilegal encounters and interlegal translation (2019-2025) which she develops at the University Carlos III of Spain. Lieselotte  has a professional path marked by a combination of conducting innovative academic and applied research and working as a practitioner on complex and politically sensitive human rights issues, such as transitional justice, legal pluralism, natural resources and territory, engaging directly with bridging theory-practice gaps from an interdisciplinary perspective. Over the past 20 years, she has been collaborating with Indigenous peoples in Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia and Nepal in diverse academic, policy and activist spaces.