Andrea Ballestero
Biographic Data
| ID | 279386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Ballestero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballestero |
| SIGNATURE | BALLESTERO A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Experimenting with Ethnography
Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, t…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
A Future History of Water
A Future History of Water
In A Future History of Water, Andrea Ballestero traces the changing relationships between humans and water in Costa Rica. She examines how water has become entangled with ideas of the future, from anxieties about scarcity to utopian visions of abundance. Through ethnographic research focusing on a large-scale irrigation project, Ballestero explores how different actors-farmers, engineers, scientists, and policymakers-imagine and plan for the futu…
Transparency Short-Circuited
Between 2006 and 2009, a group of Costa Rican NGOs, a Spanish aid agency, and local residents were entangled in the pursuit of transparency as a means to allocate funding for their 'human right to water' project initiatives. Designed as a series of pedagogical activities to 'build' local knowledge about water management, the aid agency conditioned their funding to the honest and correct implementation of the project as revealed by a system of ind…
Transparency in Triads
Experimenting with Ethnography
Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, t…
Transparency Short-Circuited
Between 2006 and 2009, a group of Costa Rican NGOs, a Spanish aid agency, and local residents were entangled in the pursuit of transparency as a means to allocate funding for their 'human right to water' project initiatives. Designed as a series of pedagogical activities to 'build' local knowledge about water management, the aid agency conditioned their funding to the honest and correct implementation of the project as revealed by a system of ind…
Transparency in Triads
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Transparency Short-Circuited
Between 2006 and 2009, a group of Costa Rican NGOs, a Spanish aid agency, and local residents were entangled in the pursuit of transparency as a means to allocate funding for their 'human right to water' project initiatives. Designed as a series of pedagogical activities to 'build' local knowledge about water management, the aid agency conditioned their funding to the honest and correct implementation of the project as revealed by a system of ind…
Transparency in Triads
A Future History of Water
A Future History of Water
In A Future History of Water, Andrea Ballestero traces the changing relationships between humans and water in Costa Rica. She examines how water has become entangled with ideas of the future, from anxieties about scarcity to utopian visions of abundance. Through ethnographic research focusing on a large-scale irrigation project, Ballestero explores how different actors-farmers, engineers, scientists, and policymakers-imagine and plan for the futu…
Experimenting with Ethnography
Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, t…
Experimenting with Ethnography
We are grateful to all the people and institutions that made this book pos sible.The In de pen dent Research Councils of Denmark (funding id 0602-02551b) supported Brit
Anthropology (2 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work)