Books:
In prep. Expanding the Social World Downwards.
2021. Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik Eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [Open Access Digital Version Here]
2019. A Future History of Water. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [Open Access Digital Version Here]
Articles:
2022. Ballestero, A., and Yesmar Oyarzun. Devices: A location for Feminist Analytics and Praxis Feminist Anthropology 3 (2): 227-233.
2019. “The Anthropology of Water” Annual Review of Anthropology 48:405-21.
2019 Touching with light, or, how texture recasts the sensing of undergroud water Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi: 10.1177/0162243919858717.
2019 E. Reddy, B. Caciki and A. Ballestero. “Beyond the Detective Mystery: Algorithmic Accountability in Context.” Big Data and Society, 6(1)
2018. Capacidade de Agregação: Compromissos, água e uma forma de cuidado coletivo no Nordeste do Brasil. Revista Culturas Jurídicas 5(11) mai/ago.
2017. Capacity as Aggregation: Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 35(1), 31-48.
2017. Ethnography and the Governance of Il/legality: Some Methodological and Analytical Reflections. Werth, Robert J, & Ballestero, Andrea. Social Justice: A journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 44(1): 10-26.
2015. The Ethics of a formula: Calculating a Humanitarian-Financial Price for Water. American Ethnologist 42(2):262-287.
2015. Paradoxical Infrastructures: ruins, retrofit and risk. Science, Technology and Human Values. Published online ahead of print, DOI: 10.1177/0162243915620017 [I am one of fifteen co-authors]
2014. with Umut Z. Turem. Regulatory Translations: Expertise and Affect in Global Legal Fields. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 24(1):1-25.
2014. What is in a Percentage? Calculation as the Poetic Translation of Human Rights. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 24(1).
2012. Transparency Short-Circuited: Laughter and Numbers in Costa Rican Water Politics. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 35(2): 223-241.
2012. Transparency in Triads. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 35(2): 160-166.
Edited Collections:
Forthcoming What is a Financial Frontier? Andrea Ballestero and Andrea Muehlebach (Eds.), Journal of Cultural Economy.
2014. Regulatory Translations, Special Issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 24(1). Co-edited with Umut Z. Turem.
2012. Editor of Transparency in Triads. Special Issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 35(2).
2009. Ballestero, A. Ed. Aportes para la Discusión sobre el Derecho Humano de Acceso al Agua en Costa Rica. San José: CEDARENA.
2007. De Camino, R., A. Ballestero and J. Breitling. Editors. Natural Resource Policies in Central America: Lessons, Positions, and Experiences for Change. San Jose: United Nations University for Peace. [In Spanish]
Book Chapters:
2021. A. Ballestero and B. Ross Winthereik “Analysis as Experimental Practice”. In: Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis. A. Ballestero and B. Ross Winthereik, Eds. Durham, NC. Duke University Press. Pgs. 1-14.
2021. Danyi, E., Knox, H., Macguire, J., Spencer, M. & Ballestero, A. Propositional Politics. In L. Watts & B. R. Winthereik (Eds.), Energy Worlds, in Experiment. Manchester, UK: Mattering Press.
2019. “The Underground as Infrastructure?: Figure/Ground Reversals and Dissolution in Sardinal.” In Environment, Infrastructure and Life in the Anthropocene. Edited by Kregg Hetherington. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
2015. Theory as parallax and provocation In Marcus, G. J. Faubion, and D. Boyer (Eds.), Theory can be much more than it used to be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition. [Peer Reviewed]
2012. The Productivity of Nonreligious Faith: Openness, Pessimism, and Water in Latin America. In Nature, Science and Religion: intersections shaping society and the environment. Ed. C. Tucker, School for Advanced Research Press, New Mexico. [Peer Reviewed]
2009. “Derecho Humano de Acceso al Agua: propiciando una mejor discusión en Costa Rica.” In Aportes para la Discusión del Derecho Humano de Acceso al Agua en Costa Rica. Edited by A. Ballestero. San Jose: CEDARENA.
2009. “La Nebulosa del DDHH al Agua en Costa Rica.” In Aportes para la Discusión del Derecho Humano de Acceso al Agua en Costa Rica. Edited by A. Ballestero. San Jose: CEDARENA.
2007. Knowledge, action and reflection: “we” the experts and our participation in natural resource policy in Central America, in Natural Resource Policies in Central America: Lessons, Positions, and Experiences for Change. Edited by R. de Camino, A. Ballestero and J. Breitling, San Jose: United Nations University for Peace. [In Spanish]
2006. Bajo Jaguaribe: The Creation of Political Space through Water Policies. In: Re-estruturação produtiva e urbanização no Baixo Jaguaribe. Ed. Denise Elias, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, Ceará State University Press. [In Spanish]
Reviews, Commentaries, and Other Publications:
2019. “Aquifers (or, Hydrolithic Elemental Choreographies)” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/aquifers-or-hydrolithic-elemental-choreographies
2019. “Success through Failure: translation, temporal tricks and numeric concept work.” Book Forum Essay on The Seductions of Quantification by Sally Engle Merry, American Anthropologist.
2018 “Transparency” invited entry for the International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. Carol Greenhouse, Willey Blackwell.
2018. “Spongiform.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/spongiform
2017 “Lineages and Discomforting Relatives” Commentary on New ontologies? Reflections on some recent ‘turns’ in STS, anthropology and philosophy. Social Anthropology 25(4): 540-541.
2016 “Spongy Aquifers, Messy Publics” Invited article for Limn. Vol. 7. You can find a pdf version here.
2015 “Underground water: from infrastructures to sponges” Invited entry for Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University. http://culturesofenergy.com/andrea-ballestero-on-infrastructure-sponges-and-aquifers/
2013 Techno-scientific numbers as fields of mobilization. Invited entry in Mobilizing Ideas, a blog published by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at University of Notre Dame. The blog publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on social movements, social change, and the public sphere. (http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/techno-scientific-numbers-as-fields-of-mobilization/)
2003 Policies and Institutions for Protected Area Management. AMBIENTICO No. 121, San José, Costa Rica, National University of Costa Rica. [In Spanish]
2002 Ballestero, A. and E. Müller (Ed). Guide for Biosphere Reserve Management. San José. Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional-UNESCO-CYTED. [In Spanish]
1999 Training for the type of development one should aspire to. In: South-South Perspectives Working Paper 28, UNESCO-Third World Academy of Sciences-Universidade de Lisboa. [In Spanish]
1999 Rojas, M., E. Muller and A. Ballestero. Red Iberoamericana de Reservas de Biosfera: perspectives. In: South-South Perspectives Working Paper 28, UNESCO-Third World Academy of Sciences-Universidade de Lisboa. [In Spanish]
1999 Rojas, M., E. Muller and A. Ballestero. Reconstruction, conservation, and sustainable development in the Savegre Watershed. In: South-South Perspectives Working Paper 28, UNESCO-Third World Academy of Sciences-Universidade de Lisboa. [In Spanish]
Book Reviews:
2018. Review of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond. Stefan Helmreich. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 328 pp. American Ethnologist 45(1):131-133.
2014. Review of Comaroff, J. and J. L. Comaroff. Theory from the South: or, How Euro-America is evolving toward Africa. (Paradigm Publishers) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
2011. Review of Strang V. Gardening the World: Agency, Identity, and the Ownership of Water. (New York, Berghan) American Anthropologist 113(3):535.
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