Reposted by Sammy FeldblumCaroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Friends - I’m headed east next week and you should come hear about my book! I’ll be at NYU Oct. 5 Smith Oct 7 Wesleyan Oct. 8 holler my way for more details, I’d love to see you IRL 021
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026RIP to Patricio Guzmán, a titan of documentary. La Batalla de Chile is one of the great works of political art. I got to write for the @thebaffler.com a couple years back on memory, nostalgia, and political urgency in his work 50 years on from Chile's coup. Rest easy. thebaffler.com/latest/the-a...thebaffler.comThe Afterlife of a Coup | Sammy FeldblumThe films of Patricio Guzmán chronicle fifty years of tumult and memory in Chile. 086
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On the anniversary of Chile's coup—which sent them on an "endless tour" to live in Argentina, and then Paris—I wrote for @nacla-report.bsky.social about the cosmic Chilean rockers Los Jaivas in Viña del Mar nacla.org/a-legendary-...nacla.orgA Legendary Chilean Band’s Tour and the Unsettled PastOne of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking. 021
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumNACLA Report @nacla-report.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🇨🇱 One of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking writes @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social nacla.org/a-legendary-...nacla.orgA Legendary Chilean Band’s Tour and the Unsettled PastOne of Latin America’s most influential bands, Los Jaivas, recently toured Alturas de Macchu Picchu, a relic of the dictatorship era whose relevance today is striking. 032
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumEdward Painter @painteredward.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Published today in Geopolitics, this article draws from my dissertation fieldwork in Taiwan. The paper balances structure and agency within a guest-worker program. Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTaking the Field: Field Space, Borderwork and Taiwan’s Guest-Worker ProgrammeTaiwan’s guest-worker programme has provided Taiwanese employers with low-cost labour while preventing participating migrants from establishing permanent residence and citizenship since the 1990s. ... 012
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumJoseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026we used data from the years before the permanent fission only (Jane & others wrote about the subsequent "Four-Year War" elsewhere). Despite the wealth of data from both sites, we now have an N of 2 for these events, so comparison is extremely valuable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe timing and causes of a unique chimpanzee community fission preceding Gombe's “Four‐Year War”Objectives While permanent group fissions are documented in humans and other primate species, they are relatively rare in male philopatric primates. One of the few apparent cases occurred in 1973 in... 042
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumJoseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Cool paper that we've all been eagerly anticipating since news of these events began filtering out! It doesn't quite make it into the MS but the process of fission and subsequent "civil war" in Ngogo is remarkably similar to what we documented in our 2018 paper on the permanent fission in Gombe.... 1143
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumKevin Sanchez @captswing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... via @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social & @dissentmag.bsky.socialdissentmagazine.orgCan Democratic Socialism Rise in Rural America?From New Mexico to Tennessee, organizers are working to put DSA on the map. The work isn't easy. 011
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it. Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable. Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters. 319363
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026A Borges story where the files keep getting released infinitely, more and more of them, eventually circling back around and referencing the files themselves, the people reading them, whole generations living and dying and somehow finding themselves in the files 100
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumCAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!! Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing 166
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumThe BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"If only it were as simple as de-privatization." The unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure and the limits of market governance.break-down.orgNothing to Lose but Our MainsThe unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits… 054
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026i do think the combination of Trump and an AI-driven tech bubble could crash the markets, but it’s very important to remember that “what are online leftists saying?” is probably the worst possible way to approach investing 532494155
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Happy to see this story now in print at the @indyweek.bsky.social. I imagine he'd be pleased to find himself in Durham's paper of record talking trash about Coach K. 192
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumTobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Fascinating, forensic, wise. And a moving tribute to Karen Bakker: "Essential to life, imbued everywhere with cultural and spiritual import, water is, she writes, 'a final frontier for capitalism'.” 064
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumSammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...break-down.orgNothing to Lose but Our MainsThe unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of... 244
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I went long on England's largest water utility failing, the history of global water privatization, and the late geographer Karen Bakker. Excited to see it now live in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: www.break-down.org/nothing-to-l...break-down.orgNothing to Lose but Our MainsThe unraveling of Britain’s largest water utility is not just a corporate scandal but a case study in how privatized water systems strain under climate pressure, aging infrastructure and the limits of... 244
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I wrote about my dad, and loving basketball indyweek.com/news/culture...indyweek.comRequiem for a Hoop DreamA writer remembers his late father through a shared love of basketball, from the scuffed courts of Durham YMCAs to the hallowed stands of the Dean Dome. 021
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumJustin Laidlaw @justinlaidlaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I'm confident the @ringernba.bsky.social family will enjoy this beautiful essay by my dear friend @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social about his late father's love for the game and what basketball can give us over a lifetime. indyweek.com/news/culture...indyweek.comRequiem for a Hoop DreamA writer remembers his late father through a shared love of basketball, from the scuffed courts of Durham YMCAs to the hallowed stands of the Dean Dome. 074
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumBarry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 19/12/2025Our @us.theguardian.com investigation of widespread overcharging by Dollar General and Family Dollar has caught the attention of 30 members of Congress, who have written to the CEOs requesting documents and demanding answers. @jocelynzuck.bsky.social @michaelwhudson.bsky.social @budzinski.house.govtheguardian.comCongress members demand answers on price disparities at dollar-store chainsA letter from 30 lawmakers criticizes recurring overcharges at Dollar General and Family Dollar stores – questioning ‘how seriously’ the companies prioritize ethics and affordability 054
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumThe Baffler @thebaffler.com · 03/10/2025As president of Uruguay, José Mujica expanded personal freedoms and aided a rapid increase in renewable energy—and left behind a country better than he found it. @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social follows his journey from militant to prisoner to head of state.thebaffler.comFree Radicals | Sammy FeldblumThough José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews. 0145
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025For @thebaffler.com I wrote about the late Pepe Mujica, one of my favorite guys, in conversation with Noam Chomsky, with some thoughts on degrowth and the Chill Revolution along the way. Please enjoy: thebaffler.com/latest/free-...thebaffler.comFree Radicals | Sammy FeldblumThough José Mujica did not publish much writing, his views on life and politics live on through the corpus of interviews. 063
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Had the pleasure of contributing a couple suggestions to @thedialmag.bsky.social's summer reading list, linked below. A dreamy—bad dream-y—novel for the Latam and politics heads; a polemic for the river lovers. Both great. 121
Reposted by Sammy Feldblumlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances. 381387306
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 26/05/2025New article surveying recent developments in the political ecology of water. I look at legal geographies of water, Indigenous scholarship on relationality, everyday and infrastructural practices of making water, and hydrosocial territories. Hop on in: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.comEmerging Currents in the Political Ecology of WaterThe ravages and disruptions of anthropogenic climate change have sparked renewed interest in water and its social worlds. This review paper examines four key emerging directions in political ecologie... 052
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 12/05/2025New article in Geoforum: building from a historical case study of the place of water law in the colonization of New Mexico, I show how recent social movements based around acequia irrigation have refashioned the law to reassert communal control: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLiberal water law against itself: Acequias and legal contestation in New Mexico's South ValleyThe passage of New Mexico’s water code of 1907 enshrined water as a publicly owned good distributed to individuals via private use rights. This system… 020
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumCaroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 25/03/2025a must read for all UC workers @ucaft.bsky.social @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social 063
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Starbucks trabajadores in Chile on huelga, vamos! 010
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025As inflation licenses the demolition of the US state, I interviewed historian Margarita Fajardo about structuralist Latin American economic schools of thought offering alternative diagnoses and policy prescriptions. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social: www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/m...phenomenalworld.orgInflation in the World-System | Sammy FeldblumAn interview with Margarita Fajardo on CEPAL 040
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Enjoyed sitting down with Margarita Fajardo to talk about the history of dependency theory and think through alternative possible responses to inflation. Lord knows we could use some. 030
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumCAPE AAG @cape-aag.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party @geographers.bsky.social! 065
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumCaroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I’ve seen too many higher ed folks wave away the threat to our universities. We need to understand what is coming and get organized right now to fight back. Join your union, form a union, join your AAUP chapter, talk to your colleagues. Do it now @ucaft.bsky.social 111355
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumBarry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 10/02/2025An illuminating and well-written story that touches on themes much bigger than Chile. 041
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumSammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...thedial.worldCan an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The DialRodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans. 133
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025What happens when the left takes power with a seeming revolutionary mandate—to change the constitution and bury neoliberalism—but the new constitution fails, and they're stuck running the same old state? How should critics of the state approach governing? It's a fascinating moment in Chile 031
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumThe Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Can an activist revolutionize government from the inside? In Chile, a group of leftwing leaders came to power in the last half decade hoping to solve the country’s water justice issues and to revolutionize its economy, @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social reports: www.thedial.world/articles/new...thedial.worldCan an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The DialRodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans. 031
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumJoseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Hey you 🫵 don’t forget to follow my brother👇 442
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I wrote about the Chilean left, social movements and the state, the constitutional hangover, fire, and water. For @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...thedial.worldCan an Activist Revolutionize Government From the Inside? — The DialRodrigo Mundaca, a leader of Chile’s water justice movement, has grand plans. 133
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumBarry Yeoman @barryyeoman.com · 23/01/2025This month marks the 25th anniversary of Walking Home, my @indyweek.bsky.social series about Loves Creek Hispanic Baptist Mission. I wanted to write about North Carolina's new immigrants in an immersive, respectful, cultural competent way, and spent eight months at the church before publishing.barryyeoman.comWalking Home - Barry YeomanIn the Triangle’s Hispanic heart, a Baptist mission learns the joys and trials of building a community. Photos by M.J. Sharp. Originally published as a two-part series in Indy Week. (Click here for Pa... 0174
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A little rundown of my year in writing, as I try to get up to speed on This Site. This year I wrote about universities, and about Chile, but pretty much everything touched on Palestine to some degree. How could it not? A thread of most of it: 221
Reposted by Sammy FeldblumOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024"The election of a new slate of DNC officers is an opportunity to change the course of the Democratic Party and to center its purpose and messaging around the economic and social needs of working people. It’s time to stop doing business as usual." aflcio.org/press/releas...aflcio.orgLabor Movement Principles for a Worker-Centered DNC | AFL-CIOThe following is a statement from Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO: 217935
Sammy Feldblum @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Had fun writing this one with Joseph. No thank you antiwoke academia, vamos broad-minded academic unionism, hello bluesky 293
