Rutgerd Boelens

Rutgerd Boelens is Professor ‘Water Governance and Social Justice’, Wageningen University; Professor ‘Political Ecology of Water’, CEDLA, University of Amsterdam; and Visiting Professor, Catholic University Peru and Central University Ecuador. He directs the international Justicia Hidrica/Water Justice alliance (www.justiciahidrica.org). His research focuses on political ecology, water rights, legal pluralism, cultural politics, governmentality, hydrosocial territories and social mobilization. Among his latest books: “Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity” (with Getches & Guevara-Gil, Earthscan, 2010); “Water, Power and Identity. The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes” (Routledge, 2015); and “Water Justice” (with Perreault & Vos, Cambridge University Press, 2018).