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Axel Borchgrevink

Axel Borchgrevink

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 915 37 311
  • Office: +47 672 36 940
E-mail
  • axel.borchgrevink@oslomet.no
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Scientific publications

Borchgrevink, Axel (2026). The politics of riverine rights. Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter; Borchgrevink, Axel (Ed.). The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. p. 156-182. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5533480

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Upadhyay, Kavita (2026). India's Ganga and Yamuna rivers as legal persons. Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter; Borchgrevink, Axel (Ed.). The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. p. 76-98. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5533458

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter ; Borchgrevink, Axel (2026). The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. ISBN: 9781032946795. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003581208

Macpherson, Elizabeth; Borchgrevink, Axel ; Ranjan, Rahul; Piedrahita, Catalina Vallejo (2024). Cuando la ley se queda corta: constitucionalismo y “derechos fluviales”. Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales.
https://doi.org/10.53010/ZQZQ8534

Cribb, Miriama; Macpherson, Elizabeth; Borchgrevink, Axel (2024). Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act. International Journal of Human Rights.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2314532

Macpherson, Elizabeth; Borchgrevink, Axel ; Ranjan, Rahul; P., Catalina Vallejo (2021). Where ordinary laws fall short: ‘riverine rights’ and constitutionalism. Griffith Law Review. Vol. 30 .
https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2021.1982119

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Borchgrevink, Axel (2018). Household histories and methodological triangulation. Forum for Development Studies. Vol. 45.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2016.1260049

McNeish, John-Andrew; Borchgrevink, Axel ; Logan, Owen (2015). Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America. ISBN: 9781783600939. 324 p. Zed Books.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4130681

Borchgrevink, Axel (2015). Civil society under different political and aid regimes in Nicaragua. Journal für Entwicklungspolitik. Vol. 31.
https://doi.org/10.20446/jep-2414-3197-31-1-30

Borchgrevink, Axel (2015). Gracias a Díos y al gobierno: electric power struggles in Nicaraguan politics. McNeish, John-Andrew; Borchgrevink, Axel; Logan, Owen (Ed.). Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America. p. 66-91. Zed Books.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4297463



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Research reports

Borchgrevink, Axel (2014). Review of Save the Children Guatemala. 50 p. HIOA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4003273

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Lie, Jon Harald Sande (2009). Regional conflicts and international engagement on the Horn of Africa. ISBN: 9788270022601. 113 p. NUPI.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2366709

Borchgrevink, Axel (2009). Evaluation of SAIH’s Support for FADCANIC’s Wawashang Environmental and Agroforestry Educational Centre. 54 p. NUPI.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/277570

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Bolaños, Miriam; Alvarado, Rubelci (2008). Evaluation Report. Save the Children Guatemala. 96 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/281264

Haslie, Anita; Borchgrevink, Axel (2007). International Engagement in Sudan after the CPA : Report on the piloting of OECD/DAC's 'Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States' for the Case of Sudan. ISBN: 9788270021536. 43 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2395616

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Acevedo, Saríah; Braathen, Einar ; Haslie, Anita; Haug, Marit ; Holm-Hansen, Jørn ; Rivera, Fernando López; Santos, Augusto; Solstad, Marit; Wiig, Henrik (2007). Evaluation of the Development Cooperation through Norwegian NGOs in Guatemala. ISBN: 9788275482523. 64 p. Norad.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3472668

Borchgrevink, Axel (2006). A Study of Civil Society in Nicaragua. ISBN: 9788270021260. 77 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2395437

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Arnegaard, Turid Johansen; Bolaños, Miriam (2006). Review of the Norwegian Program for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala. ISBN: 9788270021338. 46 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2395413

Borchgrevink, Axel (2004). Indigenous to Indigenous Cooperation : Review of the Saami Council Projects in Africa. 61 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2395222

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Skard, Torild (2004). Norway's Fredskorpset Youth Program : Study of selected exchange projects. 70 p. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2395218



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Dissemination

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2026). Beyond riverine rights. Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter; Borchgrevink, Axel (Ed.). The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. p. 206-223. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5533493

Borchgrevink, Axel ; Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter (2026). Exploring riverine rights. Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter; Borchgrevink, Axel (Ed.). The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India. p. 1-27. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5533447

Ranjan, Rahul; Borchgrevink, Axel (2025). Riverine rights: tracing the currents and consequences of legal innovations in the rights of rivers. International Journal of Human Rights.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2025.2519590

Brandshaug, Malene Karensdatter ; Borchgrevink, Axel ; Håkensen, Siv Tonje Sperati (2024). Hva skjer når elver får egne rettigheter?.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4904649

Borchgrevink, Axel (2024). The Riverine Rights research project (Introduction day 1) River persons, rights and ontologies Introduction to the Riverine Rights project (day 2) Rights across and beyond the case studies (with John McNeish). What happens when rivers get personhood: Riverine Rights closing conference. OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4108159

Borchgrevink, Axel (2023). The Riverine Rights Research Project. Rights of rivers and related peoples: Research workshop on the The Riverine Rights project. Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4085200

Borchgrevink, Axel (2023). Night of ideas: More rights for nature. Night of ideas: More rights for nature. Institute Francais Norvege.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4927484

Borchgrevink, Axel (2022). Riverine Rights. Legal personhood for rivers and environmental governance in India. Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4366029

Borchgrevink, Axel (2022). Riverine rights. Exploring Nature’s Rights in India: Complexities of Nature-Culture Dynamics. Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5107690

Borchgrevink, Axel (2022). From Nicaragua to New Zealand: Can anthropology be relevant – for society and for other disciplines?. Invited lecture. Faculty of law, University of Canterbury.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3339737



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