PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Degree in Anthropological Sciences from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Environmental Management from IHS Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Post-doctorate in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. Professor and researcher at the Universidad de la República (Udelar), in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences) and in the Multidisciplinary Unit, Degree in Development (Faculty of Social Sciences).  Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Water and Culture, Udelar, of the water family of the Intergovernmental Hydrological Program of UNESCO. Focal point of the Water Group of the Inter-American Network of National Academies of Science. His lines of research revolve around the study of society and environment relations (energy, climate change, water); transformations in rural dynamics; urban mobility; development theory, economic anthropology and political ecology.

Recent Publications

Articles

Aproximación antropológica al trabajo Humano y vacuno en la lechería del Uruguay. Evidencias para una relación de homología, Revista Uruguaya de Antropología y Etnografía, v.: 6 2 , p.:55 - 81, 2021

Environmental knowledge and the definition of a community of practice. Improvisation and identity of the Butiaceros of Southern Uruguay. Geoforum, v.: 118 p.:30 - 37, 2020. Co-autor  Dabezies, Juan Martin.

Transformaciones de la narrativa del cambio climático global en Uruguay. Sociologias, v.: 21, p.:102 - 123, 2019.

Chapters

Anthropology of socio-natural disasters in Uruguay. En: Virginia García-Acosta (ed) The anthropology of disasters in Latin America, Londres: Routledge, 2020

Los desafíos de la antropología para la comprensión de los conflictos socio-ambientales en Sudamérica. En: G. Tabakian y P. Gatti (eds) Antropologías hechas en Uruguay. Bogotá: Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología, 2020.

Water Quality in Uruguay: Current status and challenges. En: K. Vammen, H. Vaux y A. de la Cruz Molina (eds) Water qualities in the Americas. Risks and Opportunities. México: IANAS, 2019. Co-autoría: D. Conde; J. Alonso y M. Quintans.

Compilations

Relaciones sociedad-naturaleza en Paso Centurión. Aportes desde una trayectoria integral universitaria en la frontera noreste de Uruguay. SCEAM / Universidad de la República. 2022. Co-edición con M.Chouhy, L. Bergós, A. Garay, F. Grattarola, G. Perazza y C. Santos.

Anthropological contributions for sustainable futures. Research and interventions in the fields of environmental needs, gender equity, human rights and knowledge in South America and the United Kingdom. Montevideo: Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, 2018. Co-edición con S. Alzugaray.