Diego Ballestero
@dballestero.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Decolonialism/Provenance research
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org
http://uni-bonn.academia.edu/DiegoBallestero
http://transformationalhps.org
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org
http://uni-bonn.academia.edu/DiegoBallestero
http://transformationalhps.org
Pinned
My former X account @diballestero was suspended, but insurgent memory cannot be silenced.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
EASA DAN’s inaugural roundtable on Palestinian Epistemicide and Academic Silence easaonline.org/event/decolo...
EASA DAN’s inaugural roundtable on Palestinian Epistemicide and Academic Silence
EASA's Decolonial Anthropology Network (DAN) will be hosting its inaugural roundtable on Palestinian Epistemicide and Academic Silence. Join us on 1 December at 4pm CET, on Zoom.
easaonline.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
EASA DAN’s inaugural roundtable on Palestinian Epistemicide and Academic Silence easaonline.org/event/decolo...
✊ The word expands.
📚 So does the deadline.
🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025.
📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia.
If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it.
Because thinking is also resistance.
#decolonialconference
📚 So does the deadline.
🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025.
📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia.
If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it.
Because thinking is also resistance.
#decolonialconference
Deadline extended!!!
The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!
#decolonialconference
The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!
#decolonialconference
October 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
✊ The word expands.
📚 So does the deadline.
🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025.
📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia.
If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it.
Because thinking is also resistance.
#decolonialconference
📚 So does the deadline.
🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025.
📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia.
If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it.
Because thinking is also resistance.
#decolonialconference
@dgska.bsky.social : While Palestinian genocide unfolds & fascism rises in Germany, silence is complicity. Will we take collective action or keep researching in our ivory tower as comrades resign over our political void? Neutrality serves the oppressor. What is our position?
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
@dgska.bsky.social : While Palestinian genocide unfolds & fascism rises in Germany, silence is complicity. Will we take collective action or keep researching in our ivory tower as comrades resign over our political void? Neutrality serves the oppressor. What is our position?
Does anyone know if, during the @dgska.bsky.social
members’ plenary, a clear and dignified stance was taken? Was there a decision to sever ties with academic institutions of the State of Israel—institutions complicit in occupation and the silencing of entire peoples?
#dgska2025
members’ plenary, a clear and dignified stance was taken? Was there a decision to sever ties with academic institutions of the State of Israel—institutions complicit in occupation and the silencing of entire peoples?
#dgska2025
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Does anyone know if, during the @dgska.bsky.social
members’ plenary, a clear and dignified stance was taken? Was there a decision to sever ties with academic institutions of the State of Israel—institutions complicit in occupation and the silencing of entire peoples?
#dgska2025
members’ plenary, a clear and dignified stance was taken? Was there a decision to sever ties with academic institutions of the State of Israel—institutions complicit in occupation and the silencing of entire peoples?
#dgska2025
1/ This is a summary of my panel at #dgska2025.
We asked: what happens when decolonial theory, born from the wounds of the Global South, is turned into ornament for the European academy? A theory of fire turned into polite rhetoric.
We asked: what happens when decolonial theory, born from the wounds of the Global South, is turned into ornament for the European academy? A theory of fire turned into polite rhetoric.
October 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
1/ This is a summary of my panel at #dgska2025.
We asked: what happens when decolonial theory, born from the wounds of the Global South, is turned into ornament for the European academy? A theory of fire turned into polite rhetoric.
We asked: what happens when decolonial theory, born from the wounds of the Global South, is turned into ornament for the European academy? A theory of fire turned into polite rhetoric.
After the roundtable on Palestine at the #dgska2025, the @dgska.bsky.social must cut ties with all Israeli institutions. In the face of genocide, it is our ethical and moral duty: solidarity is not abstract—it demands rupture with structures of oppression and genocide
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
After the roundtable on Palestine at the #dgska2025, the @dgska.bsky.social must cut ties with all Israeli institutions. In the face of genocide, it is our ethical and moral duty: solidarity is not abstract—it demands rupture with structures of oppression and genocide
Today we spoke, listened, unlearned. The panel Un/communalizing Decoloniality became a space of insurgent thought, where theory walked and archives trembled. Gracias to all who challenged, shared, and stayed. The struggle is collective. #dgska2025
September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today we spoke, listened, unlearned. The panel Un/communalizing Decoloniality became a space of insurgent thought, where theory walked and archives trembled. Gracias to all who challenged, shared, and stayed. The struggle is collective. #dgska2025
At the plenary More-than-human Un/Commoning, reflecting on decolonial perspectives of nature: how water and land are not resources, but relations that sustain collective life #dgska2025
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
At the plenary More-than-human Un/Commoning, reflecting on decolonial perspectives of nature: how water and land are not resources, but relations that sustain collective life #dgska2025
Come today at Un/communalizing Decoloniality, 11:00 , Philosophikum S65. Let’s unpack how European academia co-opts and flattens radical theory. Come ready to think, challenge, and commune. #dgska2025 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
P004: Un/communalizing Decoloniality: European Academia and Epistemic Hegemony in Times of Polycrisis
The European academy promotes decolonial theory as a “ commons”. This panel explores how the class/racial/economic hierarchy of European academia limits access to it and explores how we can rethink th...
nomadit.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Come today at Un/communalizing Decoloniality, 11:00 , Philosophikum S65. Let’s unpack how European academia co-opts and flattens radical theory. Come ready to think, challenge, and commune. #dgska2025 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
🚨 Call for proposals open! Deadline: Oct 3, 2025.
📍 April 6–7, 2026: in-person conference
🌐 April 8, 2026: online sessions
A space for dialogue, struggle & imagination across borders. Join us! ✊🏽
#DecolonialConference2026
📍 April 6–7, 2026: in-person conference
🌐 April 8, 2026: online sessions
A space for dialogue, struggle & imagination across borders. Join us! ✊🏽
#DecolonialConference2026
Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.
#decolonialconference
September 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨 Call for proposals open! Deadline: Oct 3, 2025.
📍 April 6–7, 2026: in-person conference
🌐 April 8, 2026: online sessions
A space for dialogue, struggle & imagination across borders. Join us! ✊🏽
#DecolonialConference2026
📍 April 6–7, 2026: in-person conference
🌐 April 8, 2026: online sessions
A space for dialogue, struggle & imagination across borders. Join us! ✊🏽
#DecolonialConference2026
To decolonize is to confront power, to tear off the mask of complicity. ✊🏾 The Decolonial Conference is not an event, it is a trench: where voices meet, where new worlds are imagined, where dignity becomes action. Los Angeles, April 6–8, 2026.
The Decolonial Conference is about confronting complicity and building coalitions.
It’s about organizing and fighting against domination, imagining new worlds, and putting radical thought into action.
Los Angeles, CA, April 6-8, 2026
#decolonialconference
It’s about organizing and fighting against domination, imagining new worlds, and putting radical thought into action.
Los Angeles, CA, April 6-8, 2026
#decolonialconference
September 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
To decolonize is to confront power, to tear off the mask of complicity. ✊🏾 The Decolonial Conference is not an event, it is a trench: where voices meet, where new worlds are imagined, where dignity becomes action. Los Angeles, April 6–8, 2026.
To crown as “hero” a man who was misogynist, racist, xenophobic, transphobic, and a cheerleader of genocide is to betray our own dignity. Killing is wrong—but so is sanctifying the oppressor’s voice.
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
To crown as “hero” a man who was misogynist, racist, xenophobic, transphobic, and a cheerleader of genocide is to betray our own dignity. Killing is wrong—but so is sanctifying the oppressor’s voice.
Little by little, I am re-establishing the community in the other virtual space. Look for me as @InsurgentMemory. Let's reconnect!
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Little by little, I am re-establishing the community in the other virtual space. Look for me as @InsurgentMemory. Let's reconnect!
My former X account @diballestero was suspended, but insurgent memory cannot be silenced.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My former X account @diballestero was suspended, but insurgent memory cannot be silenced.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
From now on you can find me there as @InsurgentMemory — continuing the decolonial struggle against colonial archives, epistemic domination, and silencing.
Reposted by Diego Ballestero
La European Association of Archaeologists ha enviado un email a todos los organizadores de sesiones en el próximo congreso amenazando con censurarlas si permiten que se critique el genocidio en Gaza. Es un ataque intolerable a la libertad de expresión. Boicot a @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
La European Association of Archaeologists ha enviado un email a todos los organizadores de sesiones en el próximo congreso amenazando con censurarlas si permiten que se critique el genocidio en Gaza. Es un ataque intolerable a la libertad de expresión. Boicot a @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
Dear colleagues! Have any of you had your Twitter account suspended? How long did it take to get it active again?
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Dear colleagues! Have any of you had your Twitter account suspended? How long did it take to get it active again?
🚨 URGENT: @XSupport wrongly suspended my account @diballestero, claiming I’m not a “real user.”
This is absurd — I’ve used it for years, for my professional work.
I need your help: tag @XSupport and demand reactivation. Let’s make noise until they fix it.
This is absurd — I’ve used it for years, for my professional work.
I need your help: tag @XSupport and demand reactivation. Let’s make noise until they fix it.
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🚨 URGENT: @XSupport wrongly suspended my account @diballestero, claiming I’m not a “real user.”
This is absurd — I’ve used it for years, for my professional work.
I need your help: tag @XSupport and demand reactivation. Let’s make noise until they fix it.
This is absurd — I’ve used it for years, for my professional work.
I need your help: tag @XSupport and demand reactivation. Let’s make noise until they fix it.
Now my Twitter account @diballestero has 0 followers and I follow 0 people. I am informed that my account is permanently “in read-only mode.”
September 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Now my Twitter account @diballestero has 0 followers and I follow 0 people. I am informed that my account is permanently “in read-only mode.”
Reposted by Diego Ballestero
I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory.
So many feels!
So many feels!
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory.
So many feels!
So many feels!
Tried to log in to X, first got the “rate limit exceeded” warning, and then mysteriously my account was suspended for being “inauthentic.” Now I’m shown as having 0 followers and following 0. How is this a fair system? I’m a real person, not a bot.
September 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tried to log in to X, first got the “rate limit exceeded” warning, and then mysteriously my account was suspended for being “inauthentic.” Now I’m shown as having 0 followers and following 0. How is this a fair system? I’m a real person, not a bot.
Milei's government is a fascist4 regime that only survives by force of sticks, gas and bullets. There is no more time for resignation: popular rebellion is not only a right, it is a duty. Take to the streets before they take them away from us!
March 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Milei's government is a fascist4 regime that only survives by force of sticks, gas and bullets. There is no more time for resignation: popular rebellion is not only a right, it is a duty. Take to the streets before they take them away from us!
Reposted by Diego Ballestero
Palestine will only be free with the destruction of the Zionist settler colonial state.
March 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Palestine will only be free with the destruction of the Zionist settler colonial state.
Milei's regime shoots to kill and already has a name: #Guerrero, 1st Corporal, file 103208. A direct shot at #PabloGrillo who was documenting the repression against pensioners.
Every crime of this regime is engraved in the popular memory. We do not forget. We do not forgive.
Every crime of this regime is engraved in the popular memory. We do not forget. We do not forgive.
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Milei's regime shoots to kill and already has a name: #Guerrero, 1st Corporal, file 103208. A direct shot at #PabloGrillo who was documenting the repression against pensioners.
Every crime of this regime is engraved in the popular memory. We do not forget. We do not forgive.
Every crime of this regime is engraved in the popular memory. We do not forget. We do not forgive.
The powerful write history, but in my seminars we read it the other way around: from below, from the nobodies, from those who always pay the bill. Because learning is also an act of rebellion
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/seminarios
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/seminarios
Seminarios
Aquí dejo sembradas las voces y las preguntas que nos acompañaron en el último seminario. Palabras que no son mías ni tuyas, sino de todos los que las escucharon, las pensaron, las discutieron. No son...
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org
March 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The powerful write history, but in my seminars we read it the other way around: from below, from the nobodies, from those who always pay the bill. Because learning is also an act of rebellion
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/seminarios
reddecolonial.hypotheses.org/seminarios
Germany, that laboratory where history tested its most perfect horrors, now applauds the monster reborn. 19.5% for the AfD: memory betrayed by those who swear to honor it. The ghosts did not die, they only learned to smile for the cameras.
February 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Germany, that laboratory where history tested its most perfect horrors, now applauds the monster reborn. 19.5% for the AfD: memory betrayed by those who swear to honor it. The ghosts did not die, they only learned to smile for the cameras.