Robin Balliger

Robin Balliger is a cultural anthropologist and Lecturer in the Anthropology Department.  Her research focuses on cultural and spatial politics in 21st-century Oakland, California, particularly on lived experiences of disinvestment, gentrification, and policing.  She has a forthcoming article entitled "Between Abandonment and Autonomy: Policing, Disinvestment, and Mutual Aid in Oakland, California" in Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order.  She presented her research on precarity at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and subsequently published in Art and Gentrification in a Changing Neoliberal Landscape and Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (2021).  Balliger previously conducted extensive research in Trinidad on popular music, media expansion, and identity formation in national/transnational space, work considered formative in music and sound studies.