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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The New School -- an absolutely essential space for scholarship -- is being unmade through brutal cost-cutting and restructuring. Learn more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... And sign the petition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SIGN ON: Petition Demanding TNS Management Stop The Cuts

Sign on to demand transparency and accountability for our students, staff, and faculty. Find the petition here. Questions? Email us at jgeiger@actuaw.org

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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...

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"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"

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Vol 15, No 2 (2025)

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"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."

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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...

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

A new politics of rivers is emerging.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

“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:

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

A new politics of rivers is emerging.

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨 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...

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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.

My first encounter with popular perceptions of the New Indian Question came in 2004 when I took a sabbatical from Columbia University and came to Makerere. I brought my son along and put him in the Aga Khan primary, a local school where up to 5 per cent of the student body were of South Asian origin. One day, I went to see the teacher about how Zohran was doing. ‘He is doing well, said Mr Mwesigye, 'except that sometimes I do not always understand him.' I asked him to elaborate, and he told me the following story. One day, Mr Mwesigye asked in class that all Indian students raise their hand, since the headmaster had asked for a count of Indian students in each class. When the hands went up, he saw that Zohran had not raised his. When questioned, Zohran responded: 'I am not Indian, I am Ugandan!' The revelation to me was that Mr Mwesigye found this unusual.

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Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“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...

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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...

Book cover of Clawing Back: Redistribution In Precarious Times by
Deborah James

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“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

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Common Property - Boston Review

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

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Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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)

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Tom Fisher @drsamaki.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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...

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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 · 06/02/2025

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

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