UK water privatisation is staggering. Companies were effectively handed monopolies over an essential, inelastic good on two basic conditions - don't exploit customers, and reinvest in infrastructure. Instead we got shit in rivers and and million pound bonuses to execs.

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Please spread the word! This is a great, well-funded opportunity in my hometown and I can personally vouch for the most awesome people at the Whitney Humanities Center. Seems esp apt for someone doing work on Qs of infrastructure or--if I had my New Haven-y druthers--town-and-gown analysis.

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As an editor, I get mostly tenured/"famous" names when I ask authors to suggest manuscript reviewers. These people are inundated & basically almost never say yes. In contrast, when the list is early career folks, I'm often able to secure reviewers & move the paper through significantly faster.

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Free advice to early career humanities scholars, esp grad students suggesting peer reviewers to editors with a manuscript submission: Listing other early career folks can *significantly* shorten the time your manuscript is under review bc these folks are much more likely to say yes to reviewing.

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Most people here will never punch up because that’s how we’ve all been socialized—punching down is much easier. Also individualism. We are taught to individualize structural issues so that shame can be used to make them fall in line instead of using multiple individuals to show a structural issue

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