Kevin Donovan
@kevindonovan.bsky.social
anthro & history in e. africa | book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009501385
from citizens to subjects, alas.
August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
from citizens to subjects, alas.
Indeed. Runciman made the case for an even larger expansion, though as a father of a five year old I’m suspicion of six year olds: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six | David Runciman
The long read presents Reconstruction after Covid: The generational divide is deforming democracy. But there is a solution
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Indeed. Runciman made the case for an even larger expansion, though as a father of a five year old I’m suspicion of six year olds: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There are also some good books focused on the river and its inhabitants, including Stephen Most’s River of Renewal and Kari Marie Norgaard’s Salmon & Acorns Feed Our People
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-a...
osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/river-o...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-a...
osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/river-o...
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People - Rutgers University Press
Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made the...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There are also some good books focused on the river and its inhabitants, including Stephen Most’s River of Renewal and Kari Marie Norgaard’s Salmon & Acorns Feed Our People
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-a...
osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/river-o...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-a...
osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/river-o...
See also the documentary work of Swiftwater Films: www.youtube.com/@swiftwaterf...
Swiftwater Films
We are a full service production company who specialize in documentary nonfiction storytelling and branded films that inspire, activate and engage. We have a diverse team that works from concept thro...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
See also the documentary work of Swiftwater Films: www.youtube.com/@swiftwaterf...
@opb.org's archive of reporting www.opb.org/search/#gsc....
Including these films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLnI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMS...
Including these films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLnI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMS...
After the dams: What’s next for the Klamath River? | Oregon Field Guide
YouTube video by Oregon Public Broadcasting
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July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@opb.org's archive of reporting www.opb.org/search/#gsc....
Including these films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLnI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMS...
Including these films: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLnI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMS...
@americanrivers.bsky.social did a terrific podcast: open.spotify.com/show/0IKmzyD...
Undammed: The Klamath River Story
Podcast · American Rivers · The history of water in the West has been shaped by conflict, greed, and scarcity, but in a remote pocket of Southern Oregon and Northern California, a different Western wa...
open.spotify.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@americanrivers.bsky.social did a terrific podcast: open.spotify.com/show/0IKmzyD...
Grist's lengthy retrospective: grist.org/project/indi...
How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.
grist.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Grist's lengthy retrospective: grist.org/project/indi...
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...
What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review
A new politics of rivers is emerging.
www.bostonreview.net
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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...
When I visited, I was surprised at how much heavy machinery goes into restoring ‘nature’—bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks, and quite a bit of dynamite were needed.
But so did a lot of scientific and indigenous knowledge, carefully selected seeds, and legal manoeuvring.
But so did a lot of scientific and indigenous knowledge, carefully selected seeds, and legal manoeuvring.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When I visited, I was surprised at how much heavy machinery goes into restoring ‘nature’—bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks, and quite a bit of dynamite were needed.
But so did a lot of scientific and indigenous knowledge, carefully selected seeds, and legal manoeuvring.
But so did a lot of scientific and indigenous knowledge, carefully selected seeds, and legal manoeuvring.
A 2020 agreement — between states, power companies, tribes, and others — paved the way for an incredible project of deconstructing four dams.
This has been a highly contentious project but also a remarkable project of engineering and re-wilding.
This has been a highly contentious project but also a remarkable project of engineering and re-wilding.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A 2020 agreement — between states, power companies, tribes, and others — paved the way for an incredible project of deconstructing four dams.
This has been a highly contentious project but also a remarkable project of engineering and re-wilding.
This has been a highly contentious project but also a remarkable project of engineering and re-wilding.
Salmon are a keystone species, essential to ecological flourishing, but they’re also at the core of indigenous identity—diets, ceremonial life, and leisure. When dams inhibit nutrient flows, raise the temperature of water, and block upstream salmon habitats, it is therefore an issue of sovereignty.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Salmon are a keystone species, essential to ecological flourishing, but they’re also at the core of indigenous identity—diets, ceremonial life, and leisure. When dams inhibit nutrient flows, raise the temperature of water, and block upstream salmon habitats, it is therefore an issue of sovereignty.
Native Americans (from @yuroktribe.bsky.social and others) have fought for decades to restore the Klamath River which runs from Oregon through California to the Pacific. Central to this are salmon which used to be bountiful and are now threatened with extinction.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Native Americans (from @yuroktribe.bsky.social and others) have fought for decades to restore the Klamath River which runs from Oregon through California to the Pacific. Central to this are salmon which used to be bountiful and are now threatened with extinction.
Dams, in other words, are sacrifice zones. In the American west, they were central to colonisation; in postcolonial states, they were what Nehru called “temples of modernity.” Countries from China to Ethiopia to Brazil have, in recent years, seen them as ‘clean’ energy.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Dams, in other words, are sacrifice zones. In the American west, they were central to colonisation; in postcolonial states, they were what Nehru called “temples of modernity.” Countries from China to Ethiopia to Brazil have, in recent years, seen them as ‘clean’ energy.
In the 20th C, humans built a large dam a day. Some are controversial; some are charismatic mega-infrastructure. Many are relatively small.
But damming a river is always a partisan act. What dams offer in electricity, irrigation, or flood control comes with displacement and ecological costs.
But damming a river is always a partisan act. What dams offer in electricity, irrigation, or flood control comes with displacement and ecological costs.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In the 20th C, humans built a large dam a day. Some are controversial; some are charismatic mega-infrastructure. Many are relatively small.
But damming a river is always a partisan act. What dams offer in electricity, irrigation, or flood control comes with displacement and ecological costs.
But damming a river is always a partisan act. What dams offer in electricity, irrigation, or flood control comes with displacement and ecological costs.