Andrea Ballestero
@aballes2.bsky.social
Anthropologist / A Future History of Water (Duke 2019)/ @ethnographystudio.bsky.social / No more groundwater, more aquifers!/ property & finance, underground worlds, science
www.andreaballestero.com
www.andreaballestero.com
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I DO lovemy writing. This snippet is from a book review (a review of @aballes2.bsky.social 's "A Future History of Water")
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I DO lovemy writing. This snippet is from a book review (a review of @aballes2.bsky.social 's "A Future History of Water")
#4S in Seattle is only a few weeks away and I will be joining a brilliant group of people for one of the threaded keynotes. Ours is on Political Water 💧🧊🌊🚰🐠 There will be opportunities for online conversation, hope some of you can join! @4sweb.bsky.social
www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...
www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...
Keynote and Plenary Speakers
www.4sonline.org
August 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#4S in Seattle is only a few weeks away and I will be joining a brilliant group of people for one of the threaded keynotes. Ours is on Political Water 💧🧊🌊🚰🐠 There will be opportunities for online conversation, hope some of you can join! @4sweb.bsky.social
www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...
www.4sonline.org/plenary_keyn...
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“There is the world before this annihilation, and the world after. Have we really understood what this means?”
Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
www.bostonreview.net
July 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“There is the world before this annihilation, and the world after. Have we really understood what this means?”
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Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
n.pr
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.
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Here's the list of volunteer opportunities/needs in LA mentioned in the video. Thank you LA Taco for your work! ❤️
lataco.com/los-angeles-...
lataco.com/los-angeles-...
July 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Here's the list of volunteer opportunities/needs in LA mentioned in the video. Thank you LA Taco for your work! ❤️
lataco.com/los-angeles-...
lataco.com/los-angeles-...
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Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.
We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
July 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.
We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
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This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
Part, only a little part, of the history of LA.
The people of #LosAngeles have a rich history of protesting this country’s wrongs and supporting fellow Angelenos even across stark differences.
Take 2.5 minutes and appreciate the context for the grassroots movement taint shape, these last 48 hours. #ICE #NationalGuard
Take 2.5 minutes and appreciate the context for the grassroots movement taint shape, these last 48 hours. #ICE #NationalGuard
June 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Part, only a little part, of the history of LA.
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Our main event this spring was the 2025 Ethnographic Studio Salon: Interference with Dr. Meghanne Barker, Dr. Jenny Chio, and Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas
@youknowjuno.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social
@youknowjuno.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our main event this spring was the 2025 Ethnographic Studio Salon: Interference with Dr. Meghanne Barker, Dr. Jenny Chio, and Dr. Juno Salazar Parreñas
@youknowjuno.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social
@youknowjuno.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social, @katieulrich.bsky.social, @emmajahodabrown.bsky.social
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A number of visiting humanities fellowships now available at the University of Sydney, through the quaintly named SSSHARC (which rarely bites). Come spend some time with us in Sydney!
Opportunities
SSSHARC provides innovative platforms and fellowships to approach and solve problems, such as huddles, ultimate peer reviews, pop-up research labs and more.
www.sydney.edu.au
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A number of visiting humanities fellowships now available at the University of Sydney, through the quaintly named SSSHARC (which rarely bites). Come spend some time with us in Sydney!
Spent a couple of wonderful and inspiring days thinking about the Anthropology of the Project Form at Uppsala University. Thx to Carl Rommel and Andy Graan for organizing. Below the opening roundtable w/ Kimberly Chong, Penny Harvey, Tania Li!
May 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Spent a couple of wonderful and inspiring days thinking about the Anthropology of the Project Form at Uppsala University. Thx to Carl Rommel and Andy Graan for organizing. Below the opening roundtable w/ Kimberly Chong, Penny Harvey, Tania Li!
Things are bad, so a reminder of the beautiful things to draw some energy and keep us going. The Licuados shop in my neighborhood!
April 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Things are bad, so a reminder of the beautiful things to draw some energy and keep us going. The Licuados shop in my neighborhood!
Join us for this year’s salon! Registration details below:
Join us for the 2025 Ethnographic Salon on the theme of INTERFERENCE. Feat. our fantastic guests Meghanne Barker, Jenny Chio, and Juno Salazar Parreñas. Hybrid roundtable on April 11, 3pm PT. In USC MCB 102 or register for Zoom link bit.ly/Salon_2025. @aballes2.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Join us for this year’s salon! Registration details below:
I will be in conversation with the fantastic Miriam Ticktin tomorrow at NYAS. Thank you to Christine Hegel-Cantarella for the invitation! There is a zoom option.
An Anthropologist Under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture - NYAS
March 3, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET 115 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10006 or join virtually by Zoom In order to dwell on the aqueous formations that we call aquifers, this talk examines attempt...
www.nyas.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I will be in conversation with the fantastic Miriam Ticktin tomorrow at NYAS. Thank you to Christine Hegel-Cantarella for the invitation! There is a zoom option.
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Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join us in two weeks for a talk by Dr. Lisa Messeri (Yale) on her new book, "In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles" (Duke U Press, 2024). Taking place in-person on March 11, noon-1:30pm, at USC's Taper Hall (THH) 309K. @aballes2.bsky.social
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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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So happy to share our recent bilingual series with Cultural Anthropology on "Rethinking Facts from Latin America." Thanks for valiant co-editors @aballes2.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social, and our partners over at @tapuya.org @vivavivette.bsky.social.
Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...
culanth.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So happy to share our recent bilingual series with Cultural Anthropology on "Rethinking Facts from Latin America." Thanks for valiant co-editors @aballes2.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social, and our partners over at @tapuya.org @vivavivette.bsky.social.
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Just out! A bilingual collection (go @culanth!) of short essays on the changing nature of facts, thinking from Latin America. Curated by @krether.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social & @edenmedina.bsky.social medina. [1/2]
Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...
culanth.org
February 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just out! A bilingual collection (go @culanth!) of short essays on the changing nature of facts, thinking from Latin America. Curated by @krether.bsky.social, @aballes2.bsky.social & @edenmedina.bsky.social medina. [1/2]
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📌[Cluster Intro] in Tapuya Vol. 7
The Future of Facts in Latin America
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social
The Future of Facts in Latin America
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
This cluster, featuring interdisciplinary essays, explores the social, political, and historical dynamics of facts, challenging crisis narratives and embracing their embedded nature.
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655
@tapuya.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
📌[Cluster Intro] in Tapuya Vol. 7
The Future of Facts in Latin America
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social
The Future of Facts in Latin America
How do facts shape and reflect life in Latin America?
🗺Read at doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#FutureofFacts #LatinAmericanSTS #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social
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Cluster Article “The persistence of long facts: truth and consequence in Costa Rica’s aquifers” ⛲
By Andrea Ballestero (@aballes2.bsky.social)
Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2395734
#Water #science #quantification #publics #FactualRegime #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
By Andrea Ballestero (@aballes2.bsky.social)
Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2395734
#Water #science #quantification #publics #FactualRegime #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
December 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Cluster Article “The persistence of long facts: truth and consequence in Costa Rica’s aquifers” ⛲
By Andrea Ballestero (@aballes2.bsky.social)
Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2395734
#Water #science #quantification #publics #FactualRegime #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
By Andrea Ballestero (@aballes2.bsky.social)
Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2395734
#Water #science #quantification #publics #FactualRegime #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
This might be the thing everybody says, but just learning the ropes here and it is really BEAUTIFUL to find so many of you and meet new people! Hello everybody! 👋👋👋
December 14, 2024 at 5:54 AM
This might be the thing everybody says, but just learning the ropes here and it is really BEAUTIFUL to find so many of you and meet new people! Hello everybody! 👋👋👋
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Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.
Publications – Future of Facts in Latin America
sites.usc.edu
December 10, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.