Abby Spinak
@abbyspinak
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Historian of infrastructure, political economy, and energy democracy
Zoom, USA
Joined July 2012
So excited for this! Looking forward to a rich conversation on wildness, autonomy, and care in a changing world
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Panic! at St Brieuc Bay
Walk me through the scallop disco 'accident' & don't leave out any details
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Re-sharing this 2019 roundtable: It's now been 4+ years since Rosselló planned for PREPA's privatization, and PR's prospects for anything resembling “Energy Democracy” remain withheld. @electricgeog @abbyspinak @canayozden @ColumbiaGSAPP
https://t.co/0hWcj5hCX5
More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices.
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1) @abbyspinak posed some excellent questions at #ASEH2022 about how we argue that Energy is a Human Right. In our panel on Energy Transitions with @sarahthestan and Josiah Rector we asked how people have decided to introduce or repeal energy infrastructures by accepting risks…
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"Decolonization and Fossil Developmentalism: Energy, Climate, Extractivism and Empire/Nation in the Twentieth Century": don't miss the most keyword-optimizing event of the year, coming this Wednesday! Ft. @Megan_A_Black + On Barak. Very excited indeed... https://t.co/aHaO4fzJHk
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Monday! Join @abbyspinak for "Electricity and Empowerment: Towards a More Critical Energy History" w/ @HarvardSTS
https://t.co/VjDzBP3CMF
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today #gsd_mdes_ecologies @abbyspinak presented on #energy + #empowerment we discussed energy in terms of #materialflows #infrastructure + #epistemology … #power + #powerrelations … within context of #ecologies + #atmospheres … #climate #thermodynamics #energy #biodiversity
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Our speakers include @gabriel_dorthe @abbyspinak @ummodern @Anna_Lvovsky @Elibietti @uhlily and @wellerstein. Also keep an eye out for more information about our Science and Democracy Lecture on Nov 3 (5-7pm) with @Alondra Nelson. Want to be in the know?➡️
STS Circle is virtual again this semester! Come listen to an exciting line-up of speakers. Here is your like to register for all the talks this semester https://t.co/CHQIARIHoP
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"humans can exert positive ecological agency, co-designing ecosystems and making a shared world more hospitable to other species" - @Laura_J_Martin on the violent history of "fortress conservation" and how environmental justice is biodiversity protection:
slate.com
Too often, conservationists have pursued the protection of other species at the expense of people of color, poor people, and other marginalized groups.
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☀️Tomorrow, April 8th, @ 1pm PDT. We’ll be talking about #JustTransitions #EnvironmentalJustice #Extractives #Mining #Land & #ClimateAction
Mining & the climate crisis, virtual briefing. w/@GrandCanynTrust @NezPerce_Tribe @UmicoreGroup @Earthworks, presented by @NRDC @SierraClub @Wilderness @LCVoters @Earthjustice. April 8th, 1pm PST. #JustTransition #Mining #ClimateCrisis Register: https://t.co/XyCwgEjAIw
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This was an incredible talk, thank you @ShEcoAnarchist and @Prof_CarlosGQ so much for joining us, and such a rich discussion - when half the class stays an extra hour on zoom to talk about transnational movement building and environmental reparations, you know it’s a special day
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Whenever you hear politicians & pundits fret that "infrastructure" has drifted from its essential meaning as a class of engineered hardware (roads, pipes, etc.), remember that, a century ago, infrastructure just meant the earthwork beneath railroad tracks. https://t.co/BevwQWFYnI
academia.edu
In common usage, the keyword infrastructure and its non-English variants (infraestructura, infrastruktura, infrastruktur, imprastraktura, infrastruttura) refer to the vast, complex, and changing...
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In one week, check out this event on decolonial, postcolonial & abolitionist planning futures @ColumbiaGSAPP organized by @hibabouakar & involving so many critical planning scholars.
arch.columbia.edu
Planning Futures? On Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Abolitionist Planning This one-day conference organized by Assistant Professor Hiba Bou Akar (https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/518-hiba-bou-a...
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NEW: Capitalism (Winter 2021) IS FREE... BUT ONLY FOR TWO WEEKS: https://t.co/XGzt862JPi 1) Retweet this massively (so the world gets free access to Capitalism) 2) Make sure your library subscribes (so we keep funding free access) 3) Download, read, enjoy, repeat
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