Anna Cristina Pertierra

Congrats on your conferral!

A great choice. And his writing sounds so human, somehow his writing style exemplifies the commitment to lived experience and anti-elitism that matches his politics.

Innovation nationalism is such an important concept - universities are massive and active contributors to this! (As we have been to many colonialist/imperialist knowledge projects).

Wonderful!

So interesting! Always a sign of a good paper when you start from surprise and move through to agreement.

I started 2025 as I hope to go on: a little bit of writing, a lot of rest, a long walk.

A strong piece, Mel. Happy new year!

They have also announced they will stop supporting NZ involvement in EU Horizon grants. Insanely bad!

Wonderful project! 👏

Annual decoration of the Christmas tree. Ornaments 1 through 10: oh, this beautiful relic from my childhood, let’s place it carefully on just the right branch. Ornaments 99 to 123: oh my god will this never end?! Just shove them on any remaining spot so we can go to bed. ✨🎄✨

It’s been sitting with me ever since I read it over a day ago. It sparked too many thoughts to put together coherently.

PS as far as I’m aware we are not related 😁

I have always wondered as well whether someone could write about the (limited) fishing and aquaculture sector. Even harder to write about than agriculture!

Thanks for this interesting read. I’d love to learn more about whether other plantation histories in the Caribbean region have ended up with better agriculture today.

Congratulations!

So true, and in universities it’s so often contract teaching staff, who are quite young and may have a very marginal existence in their institution, who get all of these disclosures. Also junior supervisors to PhD students.

Happy birthday! 💵

This is a great special issue - excellent!

Congrats! Will order for my library.

I also love all the colleagues I have learned from in fields across design, planning, creative practice and so much more. But I am keen to read and learn from their thinking here, rather than manage and measure their outputs.

Hello Bluesky! For a few years I’ve been consumed by uni research leadership here in Oz. LinkedIn is where you can catch me to share ideas around that stuff.
But here, im hungry to reconnect with exciting work in anthropology, media and cultural studies, esp. in Asia and Latin America. 👋👋