@sammyfeldblum.bsky.social
Geographer
As 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.
03.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
For @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:
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The whole list is available with a small donation to the Dial, which they very much appreciate and which helps to fund reporting, essays, and fiction from across the world. It's a lush little magazine, worth your support.
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Had 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.
16.07.2025 01:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This 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.
29.05.2025 16:56 — 👍 1407 🔁 309 💬 38 📌 17
New 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:
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New 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:
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a must read for all UC workers @ucaft.bsky.social @sammyfeldblum.bsky.social @trevorgriffey.bsky.social
25.03.2025 05:01 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Trump to the American people:
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Starbucks trabajadores in Chile on huelga, vamos!
10.03.2025 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As 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:
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Enjoyed 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.
27.02.2025 20:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party
@geographers.bsky.social!
Hm. How?
16.02.2025 02:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’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
14.02.2025 21:55 — 👍 115 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 0The most nakedly corrupt shit we’ve ever seen
14.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 91 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 0
Reading the news
12.02.2025 15:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Remarkable how much of their program is just “crime is now legal (for us)”
11.02.2025 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🙏🙏
10.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An illuminating and well-written story that touches on themes much bigger than Chile.
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I 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...
What 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
30.01.2025 19:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can 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...
30.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Hey you 🫵 don’t forget to follow my brother👇
30.01.2025 16:31 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0My man!
30.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I 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...
This 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.
23.01.2025 01:59 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Tia! ✨
14.12.2024 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally, along with my brother @josephfeldblum.bsky.social, I argued against a reactionary turn in academia under Trump, and instead for a solidaristic politics based in clarity of educational purpose:
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