Dr. Daniel Murillo Licea

Doctor of Social Sciences, communication specialist, editor, writer, and unapologetic smoker. He is a founding member of the Network of Social Researchers on Water (RISSA, 1996) and the CIESAS Audiovisual Research Network (RIAV). He also participates in the Planetary Health Assessment Network in Emerging Endemic Scenarios (ESPESIES) and the National Water Quality Inventory Network (INCA). He currently serves as a research professor at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS).

Since 1990, he has led projects at the intersection of social sciences, communication for social change, and water. From 2007 to 2018, he coordinated the Water and Culture Program of the Mexican National Committee of UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme. Over the past 26 years, he has conducted extensive research on Indigenous peoples, water, and territorial issues.

His academic interests revolve around the intersections of water, territory, poverty, water policy, and Indigenous communities. Additionally, together with Los Tlacuaches Eléctricos, he is developing research on disruptive music and social movements in Mexico.