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Open Rivers Journal
Rethinking Water, Place & Community
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April 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Issue 28: Winter/Spring 2025 – Open Rivers Journal
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April 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"Collaboration for a Common Goal," by Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
Collaboration for a Common Goal
We seek to tell a story that demonstrates how combining a common goal with compromise and deliberate action leads to creative solutions and meaningful progress. Our professional backgrounds and exp…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Collaboration for a Common Goal," by Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
"How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story," by Victoria Bradford Styrbicki, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story
As a work of social choreography, Niimikaage is meant to listen to the movement of the Mississippi River through the lives of people connected to it. Whether their story is directly connected to th…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story," by Victoria Bradford Styrbicki, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
"Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change," by Linda Shenk, Jean Eells @jeaneells.bsky.social, and Wren Almitra, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change
In the Midwest, women landowners are one of the most powerful populations who can effect real change in water quality. Their potential, however, has been under-recognized, and they have been largel…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change," by Linda Shenk, Jean Eells @jeaneells.bsky.social, and Wren Almitra, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
"Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH," by Becky L. Jacobs, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH
The association between WASH services and gendered vulnerability to violence in rural locales and urban slums in developing countries has received the most study, but women everywhere are vulnerabl…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH," by Becky L. Jacobs, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
"Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities," by Kristin Osiecki, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities
Using GIS mapping, I can identify at-risk communities most impacted by water-related natural disasters in the Houston Metropolitan Area (HMA), which is highly susceptible to hurricanes, tropical st…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities," by Kristin Osiecki, from #OpenRivers Issue 21
"Open Water," by Aizita Magaña, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
Open Water
…Every time I’ve entered the open water I’ve done so filled with some degree of fear. That being said, each time I’ve exited, I’ve felt exhilarated and maybe even a few millimeters further fr…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Open Water," by Aizita Magaña, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
"Washed Up," by Shannon LeBlanc, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
Washed Up
Every summer in my childhood my parents took me and my sister to beaches in Maine, mountain lakes in our home state of New Hampshire, and our uncle’s pool in Massachusetts just over the New Hampshi…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Washed Up," by Shannon LeBlanc, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
"Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection," by Natalia Guzmán Solano, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection
By Natalia Guzmán Solano. In this article, I write about defensoras del agua y medio ambiente, water and environmental defenders: the women participating in an anti-extractivist struggle in norther…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection," by Natalia Guzmán Solano, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
"Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures," by Caroline Gottschalk Druschke @creekthinker.bsky.social, Margot Higgins, Tamara Dean @tamaradean.bsky.social, Eric G. Booth, and Rebecca Lave, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures
By Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Margot Higgins, Tamara Dean, Eric G. Booth, and Rebecca Lave. Life in Wisconsin’s Kickapoo River and Coon Creek watersheds, the focus of our Driftless work, has bee…
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March 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures," by Caroline Gottschalk Druschke @creekthinker.bsky.social, Margot Higgins, Tamara Dean @tamaradean.bsky.social, Eric G. Booth, and Rebecca Lave, from #OpenRivers Issue 22
"There's Something in the Water" by Tia-Simone Gardner from Issue 13: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/ther...
There’s Something in The Water
This essay is a collage of images and writing from an ongoing project “Reading the River: Yemayá and Oshun.” I am approaching it as is an experimental documentary that looks at the rela…
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February 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"There's Something in the Water" by Tia-Simone Gardner from Issue 13: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/ther...
"The Soul to See" by David Todd Lawrence, from Issue 13: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-...
“The Soul to See”: Toward a Hoodoo Ethnography
In his book, How Racism Takes Place, George Lipsitz (2011: 5) contends that “race is produced by space,” and that “it takes places for racism to take place.” While Lipsitz focuses primarily on the …
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February 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"The Soul to See" by David Todd Lawrence, from Issue 13: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-...
"Playground of the People?" by Kirsten Delegard and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, from Issue 6: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/mapp...
“Playground of the People”? Mapping Racial Covenants in Twentieth-century Minneapolis
The Mapping Prejudice project has brought veteran property researcher Penny Petersen together with scholars and students from Augsburg College and the University of Minnesota to unearth and map rac…
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February 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Playground of the People?" by Kirsten Delegard and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, from Issue 6: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/mapp...
"Hidden Waterways: Bassett Creek" by Trinity Ek, from Issue 18: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/hidd...
Hidden Waterways: Bassett Creek
Bassett Creek, a meandering waterway separating North Minneapolis from the rest of the city, was ignored, piped, and hidden from the landscape over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centur…
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February 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Hidden Waterways: Bassett Creek" by Trinity Ek, from Issue 18: openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/hidd...