Kate Clark
@katecheritage.bsky.social
Heritage. Transport. Policy. Values. Industrial archaeology. Wado Ryu.
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
This.
The horrors of the current moment are many.
But what I’ve personally decided to do in this time —-is to ground myself in the work of preservation, of repair, of ending colonialism’s harmful legacies.
And for me that means joining the generational fight to protect Black/African art and heritage.
But what I’ve personally decided to do in this time —-is to ground myself in the work of preservation, of repair, of ending colonialism’s harmful legacies.
And for me that means joining the generational fight to protect Black/African art and heritage.
April 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This.
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I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute
Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
Filling the soap dispensers, cleaning the toilets, kids tours, archaeology, keeping you safe. Just look at the terrible things those wasteful bureaucrats have been getting up to!
What an insipid assessment of indiscriminate firings of #NPS employees by @outsidemag.bsky.social.
To act like these firings are average fair in light of deadly & destructive consequences to visitors, parks & staff does a disservice to alert readers & the NPS.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
To act like these firings are average fair in light of deadly & destructive consequences to visitors, parks & staff does a disservice to alert readers & the NPS.
www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
National Park Visitors Should “Lower Your Expectations” This Summer
The National Park Service faces a staffing crisis after losing 1,000 employees. We spoke to experts and laid-off rangers to understand what visitors can expect.
www.outsideonline.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Filling the soap dispensers, cleaning the toilets, kids tours, archaeology, keeping you safe. Just look at the terrible things those wasteful bureaucrats have been getting up to!
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Blame game.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
February 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Blame game.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Sadly it has taken a crisis for me to discover important voices like this. I’m bloody well listening now.
“Instead of asking, ‘How can we defend DEI initiatives in this hostile climate?’ we might ask, ‘Where have our diversity efforts created the most value, and how can we build on these successes?’,” Carrie Bloxson writes for The Emancipator.
theemancipator.org/2025/02/20/t...
theemancipator.org/2025/02/20/t...
To counter lies about DEI, follow the money
A publishing veteran explains the moral and business imperative of cultivating inclusive initiatives as they face annihilation
theemancipator.org
February 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sadly it has taken a crisis for me to discover important voices like this. I’m bloody well listening now.
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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
Ahem- transport planners!
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Ahem- transport planners!
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The Trump administration revoked approval for New York City's newly enacted congestion pricing plan, as the president gloated: "LONG LIVE THE KING."
Trump Administration Revokes Approval For New York City’s Congestion Pricing
www.huffpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The Trump administration revoked approval for New York City's newly enacted congestion pricing plan, as the president gloated: "LONG LIVE THE KING."
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Someone has made a Project 2025 tracker. There's so much to fight now and prepare for. Sharing this grab for archaeology, heritage, and conservation colleagues - we have work to do
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
February 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Someone has made a Project 2025 tracker. There's so much to fight now and prepare for. Sharing this grab for archaeology, heritage, and conservation colleagues - we have work to do
www.project2025.observer
www.project2025.observer
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BREAKING: Trump's Dept. of Interior is removing an 11-mile stretch in St. John the Baptist Parish from consideration for a National Historic Landmark, according to a letter obtained by @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/02/18/s...
veritenews.org/2025/02/18/s...
Under Trump, St. John site no longer considered for historic landmark designation
The National Park Service removed an 11-mile stretch of the west bank of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish from consideration for a National Historic Landmark designation last week,...
veritenews.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
BREAKING: Trump's Dept. of Interior is removing an 11-mile stretch in St. John the Baptist Parish from consideration for a National Historic Landmark, according to a letter obtained by @veritenews.org.
veritenews.org/2025/02/18/s...
veritenews.org/2025/02/18/s...
Cultural heritage won’t get us out of this mess, but can someone add sharing untold stories to those lists of local things we can do?
February 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Cultural heritage won’t get us out of this mess, but can someone add sharing untold stories to those lists of local things we can do?
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“The land and the history is disappearing into the sea and so we’re trying to act before it disappears. But we need to ensure the community is centred in this, that knowledge is returned to them.”
#Arctic #climateheritage🏺
“If anything happens to one building, they can easily replace it...But you can’t replace a culture and a history. If you let those die out, they’re next to impossible to bring back.”
“If anything happens to one building, they can easily replace it...But you can’t replace a culture and a history. If you let those die out, they’re next to impossible to bring back.”
Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea – but can one island live forever online?
On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“The land and the history is disappearing into the sea and so we’re trying to act before it disappears. But we need to ensure the community is centred in this, that knowledge is returned to them.”
Well, that’s that for cultural heritage. Here was me thinking we were too elitist!
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Well, that’s that for cultural heritage. Here was me thinking we were too elitist!