ABSTRACT The foregrounding of economic interests to the exclusion of broadly termed ‘cultural’ interests in water governance has been challenged by the grant of legal personality to rivers, including the Ganges. In this article, we explore the 2017 Ganges judgment of the High Court of Uttarakhand, which conferred legal personality on the river, as a case study which exemplifies the recognition and negotiation of different ontologies of water. We explore the judgment’s simultaneous mobilization of the Ganges as socio-economic resource, ecosystem and spiritual being. Our analysis engages with possible tensions between water ontologies, and we ask how ontological conjunctures may be foregrounded, and disjunctures navigated, in practice.

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水治理中的映射和导航本体：恒河案例

摘要 将经济利益置于水治理中排除广义的“文化”利益的前景受到了河流（包括恒河）法人资格的挑战。在本文中，我们探讨了北阿坎德邦高等法院 2017 年恒河判决，该判决授予河流法人资格，作为案例研究，举例说明对不同水本体的认可和协商。我们探索判断同时动员恒河作为社会经济资源、生态系统和精神存在。我们的分析涉及水本体之间可能存在的紧张关系，并且我们询问在实践中如何将本体论结合起来，以及如何导航分离。