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New semester. Offered to print all the readings for students who wished to try to work in a less distracted way. Did not appreciate how long actually doing that printing would take...

"There is something... self-defeating about an approach to political strategy that takes so much of our political life as fixed and preordained and thereby minimizes the significance of doing actual politics"

Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Reignited debates about the place of polling in progressive politics are one skirmish in a broader struggle over the future of the Democratic Party. The stakes could hardly be higher for forging a popular front against Trump’s authoritarianism. Lily Hu on the data wars over electoral strategy:

@spokes.org.uk I recall seeing something about e-bikes not being allowed overnight at Waverley. Is that the case?

the newest issue of Hau has a special collection on the late, great economic anthropologist Jane Guyer: www.haujournal.org/index.php/ha...

"Looking across all sectors, the key dynamic appears to be a well-worn story: women opt in much greater numbers for healthcare jobs, where employment continues trending steeply upwards... Perhaps “learn to care” could replace “learn to code” as the go-to career advice for the next generation."

John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · last yr.

NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay. www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

The Klamath saga has been subject of excellent journalism, including from @highcountrynews.org, @opb.org, @ahofschneider.bsky.social of @grist.org, @jacquesleslie.bsky.social, and @mongabay.com. I'll include some links below.

Kevin Donovan@kevindonovan.bsky.social · last yr.

As the Trump regime works to eliminate such programs, the Klamath has important political lessons, some of which I tease out in the essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

I wrote about dams, using new books by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, James C. Scott, and Yuvan Aves to discuss a remarkable transformation on the Klamath River where four large dams have been removed to restore the watershed. 🧵 www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review

A new politics of rivers is emerging.

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“When Jawaharlal Nehru called dams ‘temples of modern India’ in 1954, he was expressing a belief shared by all the dominant faiths: to dam a river was to develop a nation. Over the course of the twentieth century, humans built, on average, one large dam a day.” New from @kevindonovan.bsky.social:

What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review

A new politics of rivers is emerging.

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the stuff on 'family capitalism' in Cooper's book is really important--hope it gets more attention

Katrina Forrester@katforrester.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the pleasure of writing about the inimitable @melindacooper.bsky.social’s Counterrevolution for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

this is excellent!

Marielle Debos@debos.bsky.social · last yr.

After years of research, I’m thrilled to share my article on biometric voting in Africa. I focus on the companies who sell the tech. They have become key actors for both election management and citizen identification. Yet we know little about them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

He identified as Ugandan when he was like 12, as his father mentions in one of his books (published well before Zohran ran for office; this from the 2011 second edition with Pambazuka Press). Real RTFM moment.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · last yr.

People will just go on the internet and lie

Not that Cornyn cares but… a “100 year flood” does not mean it happens once a century. It means there is a roughly 1% chance annually of such a flood. That means over the course of 30 years, there is a roughly 25% chance of such a flood.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Cornyn highlights the people who didn't die in the Texas floods: "It's a very sad time, but it's also a time when 850+ campers were accounted for and recovered ... this was a 100 year flood event ... it's just a time of very many conflicting feelings."

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and the United Kingdom, Clawing Back by Deborah James explores how notions of reallocation and payout are intimately connected with those of compensation for a loss. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/sociol...

“Hayek’s call for means-testing social insurance invites the very moralism and arbitrary bureaucratic judgment he decries. Such intrusive, punitive, shaming regulations, based on suspicion of malingering and fraud, trap families in poverty.” —Elizabeth Anderson

Common Property - Boston Review

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

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Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)

Another £40 million is being given to the University of Dundee by the Scottish government to secure the future of the crisis-ridden institution, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Dundee given £40 million bailout following ‘unprecedented’ crisis

Money for ailing institution from Scottish Funding Council comes on top of the £22 million previously made available

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Fascinating article on accountancy - wait! It really is! - and how it’s alleged “objectivity” played out in nationalisations in Tanzania, Chile. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

The Politics of Price - Boston Review

How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.

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Kevin Donovan@kevindonovan.bsky.social · last yr.

he book covers *the role of the Bank of England in protecting Kenyan settlers, *the exuberant embrace of bank branches in Idi Amin's Uganda, and *the nationalization of Barclays in socialist Tanzania (discussed here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... @bostonreview.bsky.social)

it's here! Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa my book has arrived. a brief 🧵