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Ian G. Williams
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Personal account. Social worker, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. I read & think a lot about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. I find refuge & inspiration in the humanities.
Double-dipping IRL & on Zoom so I can simultaneously follow Celina Su's book launch talk & the expert panel downstairs about Zohran Mamdani's election victory last week, both occurring at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social #budgetjustice
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Celina Su #budgetjustice: Kesi Foster (Partners for Dignity & Rights) links budget justice & direct democracy to contemporary struggles against top-down data center development, where massive public $ subsidies & antidemocratic policies fuel resource extraction practices & ecological harms.
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Celina Su reflecting on the simultaneous emergence of participatory budgeting and direct democracy, and her experience of Occupy Wall Street (and the wider movement of the squares) in the wake of the Great Recession. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Full house at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Skylight Room for this talk! #budgetjustice
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
She references Roussos & Malamidis' very interesting paper on social movements & the commons (2021).

mobilization.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

#10EMESconf #ScalingThroughCommunities
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#10EMESconf closing plenary at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social: Donnatella Della Porta discusses her work on social movements & its implications for thinking about the social economy: relationships between markets welfare states, & civil society; commons & solidarities; crises & austerity.
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Juliana Rodrigues, EMES PhD student board rep, starts by remarking on her feelings of responsibility that set in while preparing for this plenary, situating her work on north(s)-south(s) dialogues with her dual PhD studies at universities in Finland & Brazil, & decoloniality as praxis. #10EMESconf
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I bought a copy of Laville's book, "The Solidarity Economy," the other day & had a fascinating conversation with him about the history & origins of EMES, & his long standing interest in the relationships between economies & democracies. Really enjoying his plenary remarks. #10EMESconf
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Jean-Louis Laville opens up the #10EMESconf afternoon plenary in Utrecht, focusing his remarks on EMES as a space for dialogues & exploring tensions between the SE sector & the importance of heterogeneity in this space. He looks back to a dialogue between Walter Lippmann & John Dewey on democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#10EMES A packed room for the Civic Values and Indirect Impact session. First session: "Civic wealth creation: Scale development and validation" with Sophie Bacq & Georgios Polychronopoulos. Lots of deep questions about measurement & model creation.

#ScalingThroughCommunities
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#10EMESconf afternoon session: S. Violeta Bouzada Novoa shares her ongoing doctoral research & systematic literature review on social enterprises & circular economies.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Prof Tina de Moor at @rsmerasmus.bsky.social discussing historical perspectives on citizen collectives, long views of the commons & Ostrom, & why orgs become types. Referenced her 2021 article on the "three waves of cooperation"

doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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#ScalingThroughCommunities
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Now learning about Collectieve Kracht, a digital platform for collective citizen power & #citizenscience

www.collectievekracht.eu/en/default.a...

#10EMESconf
#ScalingThroughCommunities
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
In a session on commons creation: urban heat islands adaptation via digital twins & living labs, a citizen science platform, & visualizing the citizen collective movement. Some overlaps w/ @cunypitlab.bsky.social & @beta.nyc's PIT Pop-up (www.nycpitpopup.org) & @metagov.bsky.social

#10EMESconf
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
First audience question: who gets to define social enterpreneurship, & what it means in different contexts. Touches on questions "what is social?" & "based in what values?"

Diagram from another recent paper of Bacq's on SE research: doi.org/10.1111/ijmr...

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November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dr. Bacq's keynote is an extended overview of her work on civic wealth creation & regimes of support, starting from her many projects on social entrepreneurship. See this more recent paper:

journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...

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#SEBoostingSocietalTransitions
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Day 1 of the NYC Public Interest Technology Pop-Up was great. Check out Day 2's demos from 2-6pm! Attaching a screenshot of how to locate it in The Oculus.

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social
@beta.nyc
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Helping staff this awesome space today (Climate w/ @asrc-gc.bsky.social ), tomorrow (Innovating For Inclusion), & Wednesday (Community Engagement), with @beta.nyc, @cunypitlab.bsky.social . Check out the schedule & come by, or watch the stream at twitch.tv/cunypitlab! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'm hosting the 10/29/25 talk from 3-4pm at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social in the @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social space. It'll be a fun conversation about a good book and a very interesting nexus of activism and scholarship. Come check it out if you're around.
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In the midst of all that is going on, there is nothing quite like reveling in the pleasure of photographing Chloe, my parents' cat, rolling around outside before she slinks off into the raspberry bushes, in search of prey.
October 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fall equinox 2025: move over watermelon ale, it's pumpkin time.
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Wandering through @bkbookfest.bsky.social today was a delight. Glad to see @milmundosnyc.bsky.social in the lineup this year. I don't *need* more books, but it is always nice to add more to my rather full shelves and never-ending reading list.
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Closer and closer to Idiocracy we come...
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.
September 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Description for The Age of Spectacular Death, edited by Michael Hviind Jacobsen. Seems quite relevant to this week's events.
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM