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Andrea Ballestero, A Future History of Water
Full text linkA etnografia A Future History of Water, de Andrea Ballestero, foi conduzida na Costa Rica e no estado brasileiro do Ceará. Os dois países não reconhecem oficialmente a água como um direito humano e no caso do Brasil alguns sistemas de abastecimentos foram recentemente privatizados. Por isso, segundo a antropóloga, garantir sua provisão envolve negociar constantemente teores de reformas administrativas e constitucionais, protocolos de ajustes de preços e a gestão dos sistemas de abastecimento...
Review of A Future History of Water, by Andrea Ballestero (Duke University Press, 2019)
No full textReview of A Future History of Water, by Andrea Ballestero (Duke University Press, 2019
Andrea Ballestero, pescadora de futuros posibles
No full textParticipantes: Susana Fevrier, locutora. Luis Diego Solórzano, locutor. Andrea Ballestero, pescadora.Laguna de Rocha, en Uruguay, es un lugar hermoso, apacible y de gran riqueza natural. Solo las dunas la separan del mar formando una barrera natural que periódicamente se abre permitiendo la entrada de especies marinas, como lisas, corvinas, camarón y cangrejo azul, entre otras. En su ribera un pequeño pueblo de pescadores, 22 familias, que a través de los años han cuidado su entorno y la riqueza de la laguna.
Allí, una joven mujer supo ganarse su espacio en la actividad pesquera, tradicionalmente exclusiva de hombres; y junto a otras jóvenes construye futuro para que su pueblo siga vivo en armonía con el medioambiente. Una Líder de la Ruralidad de las Américas, que nos comparte su historia
Casual Planetarities:Force-Fields and Movement as Terms of Engagement
No full textReplacing questions of scale with concerns about distance, Ballestero’s talk asks how people make sense of their planetary condition by thinking geologically. She explores the role that movement — movement of an aquifer and movement as analytic — plays as people navigate the force-fields of their daily lives an already changed planet. Bringing together the work of geologists, local residents, and artists, Ballestero proposes choreographic thinking as a way of changing the terms of engagement in the midst of an increasingly authoritarian and populist planetary climate. Andrea Ballestero is an anthropologist interested in political and legal anthropology, STS, and social studies of finance and economics. She is a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at USC. Her work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America. She is particularly interested in spaces where the law, economics and techno-science are so fused that they appear as one another. Her first book, A Future History of Water (2019) asks how the difference between a human right and a commodity is produced in regulatory and governance spaces that purport to be open to different forms of knowledge and promote flexibility and experimentation. She has worked with regulators, policy-makers, and NGOs in Costa Rica and Brazil where she traces how techno-legal devices embody moral distinctions, pose questions about the foundations of liberal capitalist societies, and help people inhabit non-linear and generative futures
Materials of Movement: Homeless bodies and mobile technologies in a feminist new materialist lens
No full textThis paper was originally prepared for Course ANTH 428: Feminist Science and Technology Studies, given by Professor Dr. Andrea Ballestero, Department of Anthropology
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Spongy Aquifers, Messy Publics
Full text linkIs an aquifer a tank or a sponge? Andrea Ballestero investigates how publics navigate the scientific indeterminacy of the underground in Costa Ric
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
A Future History of Water
Full text linkThe submitted text reviews the inaugural book of the anthropologist of Costan Rican ancestry, Andrea Ballestero. It is about the work A Future History of Water, published in 2019 by Duke University Press and available in open access format.publishersversionpublishe
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