Jorge Nieto Jiménez

Jorge Alberto Nieto Jimenez is a Master of Environmental Science Student at the Yale School of the Environment. His interests span the social construction of expertise and science, the anthropology of conservation and development, and human relations with water and its non-human inhabitants. He is developing a project to better understand the process of technology transfer and innovation for transition to renewable energies in developing countries, mainly Latin America and Southeast Asia, in the context of initiatives managed and directed by local communities. Jorge’s work so far has concerned the emergence of a new set of mechanisms to govern small and decentralized hydropower operations, and a corresponding reconfiguration of power relations that tends to emerge from those arrangements. To advance that agenda he will now focus on the making of creative adaptations and strategies of resistance to those trends. His thinking is informed by insights from many disciplines, but mostly Political Ecology, Science and Technology Studies, and the Anthropology of Development. Before coming to Yale, Jorge worked for the Science and Technology Council of Mexico, and completed a Bachelor (Licenciatura) in International Relations at El Colegio de México, where he was also a research assistant with M. Celia Toro Hernandez, with a project on borders in North America.