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Giacomo Parrinello

@parriblue.bsky.social

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Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Dec 3

🌊 River people: a #rivers feed is up and running! bsky.app/profile/did:...

It draws on a "River people" list that combines +++starting packs on rivers but filters only posts with "rivers" or "#rivers" in the text.

In other words: posts from many river communities all in one place! Thx for sharing

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations, it looks great! I just ordered a copy for our library

Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 23d

And there is undoubtedly something to be said about plastics and psychedelics ("cellophane flowers of yellow and green").

Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 23d

I recommend reading Primo Levi's concluding story in The Periodic Table, if you haven't already. It's all about the worldly travels of a carbon molecule...Rebecca Altman knows it (and likes it, if I remember well).

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jun 19

Andy Horowitz, Katrina is as much a history of NOLA as it is a history of disaster, and it stands out IMO. And as NOLA is a good city to think with, I highly recommend Colten's Unnatural Metropolis, which to me models how to foreground the physical environment in urban history.

Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Apr 28

I am in Cambridge, UK, for the next few weeks. If you are in town and would like to meet to talk abt #envhist, #rivers & more, feel free to reach out!

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Mar 20

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Feb 14

Might be. I haven’t had the chance to teach to 1st year students abt the Anthropocene in a while

Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Feb 14

Maybe a generational effect (meaning that it’s fading in public debates)? It definitely wasn’t the case at Sciences Po until five years ago, my students knew the term

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Feb 13

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Audrey Garric @audreygarric.bsky.social · Feb 7

Alors que plus d’un quart de la population française est exposé au risque d’inondation par débordement des cours d’eau, plusieurs communes se sont lancées dans des projets qui fonctionnent (élargissement des lits des rivières, forages de voies sous la ville...) www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Inondations : comment, en France, des villes ont réussi à mieux se protéger

Alors que plus d’un quart de la population française est exposé au risque d’inondation par débordement des cours d’eau, plusieurs communes se sont lancées dans des projets qui ont fait leurs preuves, ...

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Feb 7

It's hard to pay attention to anything else than the epoch-making, unprecedented crisis of democracy in the United States, and what it might foretell about Europe. And makes it difficult to post about anything else...

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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · Jan 16

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

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Émilie Pasquier @emilie-pasquier.bsky.social · Jan 14

#AAC J'ai la joie d'organiser avec Yaël Gagnepain une journée d'étude sur "les accaparements de l'eau au XIXe siècle" le 11 juin prochain. Les propositions sont à envoyer jusqu'au 1er mars. Vous retrouverez l'appel à communication sur le site du RUCHE : leruche.hypotheses.org/8326 #waterhistory

AAC – JE : Les accaparements de l’eau au XIXe siècle

Une journée d’étude sur “Les accaparements de l’eau au XIXe siècle” est organisée à l’ENS (Paris) par Emilie Pasquier et Yaël Gagnepain le 11 juin 2025. L’appel à communication peut être téléchargé ic...

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Émilie Pasquier @emilie-pasquier.bsky.social · Jan 14

#callforpapers I am pleased to organize, together with Yaël Gagnepain, a workshop on "Water Grabbing in the 19th Century" on June 11th 2025. Proposals should be submitted by March 1st. More information here: ihmc.ens.psl.eu/accaparement... #waterhistory #envhist 💧

[AAC] Les accaparements de l’eau au xixe siècle - IHMC

Journée d'études organisée le 11 Juin 2024 à l'ENS-PSL (salle du CERES – E045, 24 rue Lhomond Paris 5e) Date limite d'envoi : 1er mars 2024

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Jan 12

There are vast, complex worlds in every cubic centimeter of freshwater streams. From a new book project on stream and smaller environments. #rivers #streams #ecology #microbiology #biologyteacher

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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · Jan 10

A complex view, but then so is the reality. Recent research on stream ecosystems shows that trout and other top stream predators get as much as 50% of their summer and autumn food from terrestrial insects that blunder into streams. #rivers #streams #freshwater #ecology

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 10

What I know already on my end in pol sci/IR is the hydropolitics literature (Waterbury) and the watershed governance lit (which has a critical twin in political ecology).

I am starting to think the existence of a river historiography is quite the exception.

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 10

Thank you ! So far, I have not found anything that squarely frames/takes stock of a "river sociology" or "river political science" as a subfield, while there seems to be a bit more in anthropology as pointed out by @cadensia.bsky.social.

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 9

Genuine q. for #rivers & #water folks in the social sciences: is there a (sub)field focusing on rivers in your discipline?

Is there a river sociology, a river political science, or a river anthropology?

There is definitely a river history, with published states of the art, that's why I ask.

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thank you! This book looks great!

Has this lit coalesced into a subfield that self-identifies as river sociology/political science?are there states of the art I could read? I am thinking about something like this www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Beyond the Organic Machine? New Approaches in River Historiography | Environmental History: Vol 23, No 4

Abstract This article considers the growth of river historiography in environmental history and the influence of foundational works, with a particular focus on Richard White’s The Organic Machine. Whi...

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 9

Wonderful, thank you!

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Cadensia 婉玉🪻🎀 @cadensia.bsky.social · Jan 9

But considering the last ten years, I would say that we are going in the direction of an anthropology of rivers. Coincidentally, Henk Driessen wrote a chapter about that ('Towards an Ethnography of Rivers').

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thank you very much, this is very interesting and helpful!

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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · Jan 8

The worst are traitors: of loved ones, friends, countries, guests…Dante places them in the deepest circle of hell.

Some of them are sent to hell as soon as treachery is consumed. Their souls rot in hell while their body still lives on Earth, operated by a devil!

I can think of a few people…