Water as A Biopolitical Actant

Drawing from the hydrofeminist perspective proposed by Astrida Neimanis this contribution assumes the Po River as the subject of its practice of care and calls for a recognition of its ecological rights as body of water. To do so, the reflection questions the persistence of policies that reduce water to a mere resource – measurable, scalable, thus controllable and productive – thereby translating ecological risk into a renewed form of capital expansion. The great renaturation plan of the Po River will be the paradigmatic case and object of this critique.