Andrea Ballestero

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.

“There is the world before this annihilation, and the world after. Have we really understood what this means?”

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.

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.

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-...

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?

❤️🎉 so many wonderful things to come! So happy for you Shannon. Abrazos!

Los Angeles #NoKings

Seagull proudly perched on a "no seagulls" sign

Los Angeles 2025

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...

"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...

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

Part, only a little part, of the history of LA.

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

Opportunities SSSHARC provides innovative platforms and fellowships to approach and solve problems, such as huddles, ultimate peer reviews, pop-up research labs and more.

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!

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:

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...

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.

Promotional poster with a pixelated pink and purple background, a blown-up portion of the image on the cover of "In the Land of the Unreal," book by Lisa Messeri.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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]

📌[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
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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

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! 👋👋👋

Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.

Los hechos nunca andan solos: The future of facts in Latin America Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)

✨New special issue✨ coedited with @aballes2.bsky.social and @krether.bsky.social. The special issue published by @tapuya.org is tied to a multiyear interdisciplinary working group on the "Future of Facts in Latin America" funded by @ssrc.org. #latinamerica #sts

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Event poster: in the background, a pixelated image of a mountain in blue tones against a black backdrop. The poster text is white and says, "Missing, Underappreciated, Found: Thinking about ethnographic objects. A workshop feat. Labyrinth Project (UCLA), Fixing Futures (Goethe University), and Expanding the Social World Downwards (USC). September 27, 2024. 9am-12:30pm. USC Taper Hall 309K."

Along with colleagues from Fixing Futures (Goethe University) and the Labyrinth Project (UCLA), we thought together about "transitional devices" encountered by ethnographers. Find a recap of the event here: ethnographystudio.org/happenings/m... @aballes2.bsky.social