JP (Juan) Hidalgo Bastidas

I am an agricultural engineer with a PhD in social sciences. My work on water governance gets theoretical insights from political ecology, science and technology studies and subaltern studies. My thinking and doing pursue and are inspired by interdisciplinarity and socio-environmental justice. I am interested in critically understand the diverse and complex relationships between water(s), societies and the so-called 'hard' and 'soft' water technologies. To achieve this I pay special attention to peasants-led irrigation schemes and agribusiness, socio-environmental movements, mega-dams politics, rural-urban water governance policies and, more recently, I look at water-secure, water provision and water conservation practices, discourses and policies. 
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the BIO-JUST project, which is critically looking at Nature based-Solutions (NbS) from an environmental justice perspective, and I collaborate with Riverhood/River Commons projects. My research focuses on Ecuador and, more recently, on The Netherlands.