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| iDoc: Documenting Designs for the Future [Workshop]During this workshop style session, participants were introduced to iDoc and then led through a version of the Perfect Storm! role-playing game that enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada.T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-01 | | | iDoc: Designs for the FuturePresentation about iDoc as a feminist intermedia project, involving activities and a selection of videos about the research.T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-06-01 | | | The iDoc Feminist Communication Process: Democratizing Energy Transition DiscourseThis workshop style session facilitated a participatory conversation about energy transition – and how energy transition operates as a galvanizing politic around which we can actualize feminist, intersectional, and decolonial goals .T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-07-16 | | | LASERAlberta: Art, Climate, Energy, ActivismThis LASERAlberta panel involved the three researchers speaking on Just Powers, a research project addressing the impact and importance of de-colonial feminist theory and practice for thinking through alternatives to petrocapitalism, and discussing Speculative Energy Futures, a sub-project of Just Powers that brings together a carefully chosen group of artistic and humanities researchers with science, social science and policy experts to investigate the challenges of energy transitionT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-02-28 | | | Interview: Sheena WilsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-27 | | | Interview: Sheena WilsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Kenneth TamT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-27 | | | Interview: Stefan SchererT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-27 | | | Interview: Larry KostiukT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-27 | | | Interview: Charles StubblefieldT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Sourayan MookerjeaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Mary Elizabeth (ME) LukaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Ariel KroonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Eva BogdanT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Ipek OskayT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-28 | | | Interview: Angele AlookT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-29 | | | Interview: Evan DaviesT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-27 | | | Interview: Jim SandercockT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-30 | | | Interview: Ronak PatelT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-30 | | | Interview: Stephanie RipleyT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-30 | | | Interview: Brandon SandmaierT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-30 | | | Interview: Rae Ann WadeyT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-30 | | | Interview: Jasper WoodardT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-12-07 | | | Interview: Jiaqiang YiT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-12-07 | | | Interview: Reza KhalkhaliT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-12-07 | | | Interview: Jan PoehlsT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-12-07 | | | Interview: Jordan KinderT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-19 | | | Interview: Jessie BeierT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-19 | | | Interview: Jonathan BanksT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-23 | | | Interview: Mark SimpsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-23 | | | Interview: Andrea LinskyT04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-01-24 | | | Interview: Howaida HassanT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-24 | | | Interview: Robyn WebbT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-24 | | | Interview: Lisa DockmanT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-24 | | | Interview: Stefanie DrozdaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-01-24 | | | Interview: Chandra TomarasT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-13 | | | Interview: Danielle KoleyakT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-13 | | | Interview: Kim TallBearT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-14 | | | Interview: Anne NaethT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-14 | | | Interview: Beth Stephens + Annie SprinkleT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-14 | | | Interview: Pierre MertinyT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-15 | | | Interview: David KahaneT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-15 | | | Interview: Yunwei (Ryan) LiT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-16 | | | Interview: Bertha & Donald AlookT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-18 | | | Interview: Cindy NoskiyeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-18 | | | Interview: Eriel DerangerT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-20 | | | Interview: Marc SecanellT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-20 | | | Interview: Melissa BlakeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-22 | | | Interview: Linda GisenyaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-24 | | | Fogo Process Discussion RoundtableT04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-02-13 | | | Research Archive: Fogo Process Discussion RoundtableT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-13 | | | Interview: Éve Robidoux-DescaryT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-24 | | | Research Archive: "iDoc: Speculating on Future Energy Systems"T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-05 | | | Research Archive: "Just Powers: Climate Change and Social Justice"T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-06 | | | Interview: Laura OsorioT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-24 | | | Interview: Nathalie BrunetT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-24 | | | Interview: Randall NoskiyeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-26 | | | Interview: Gordon AugerT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-26 | | | Interview: Cindy NoskiyeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-26 | | | Interview: Elder Mike BeaverT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-26 | | | Interview: Josie AugerT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-27 | | | Interview: Troy StuartT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-02-27 | | | Interview: Elder Eliza OrrT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-15 | | | Interview: Elder Albert YellowkneeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-15 | | | Interview: Elder Verna OrrT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-15 | | | Research Archive: Speculative Energy Futures Annual Team MeetingT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-08 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Jessie Beier, Mookerjea, S., Simpson, M., Davies, E., MaryElizabeth Luka, Jordan Kinder, Charles Stubblefield, Angele Alook, Ipek Oskay, Eva Bogdan, Ariel Kroon, Danika Jorgensen Skakum | | Interview: Ray PetersT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-15 | | | Interview: Emma JacksonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-15 | | | Interview: Robert (Bob) SummersT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-15 | | | Interview: Kristof Van AsscheT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-15 | | | Interview: Naomi KrogmanT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-22 | | | Interview: Mary BeckieT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-22 | | | Interview: Danika Jorgensen-SkakumT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-23 | | | Interview: Devereaux JenningsT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-23 | | | Interview: Nicholas AshboltT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-23 | | | Interview: Laurie AdkinT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-26 | | | Interview: Cindy GaudetT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-26 | | | Interview: Melissa GorrieT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-26 | | | Interview: Sheena WilsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-27 | | | Interview: Jenn ProsserT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-27 | | | Interview: Michael KalmanovitchT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-27 | | | Interview: Ronak PatelT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-30 | | | Interview: Andrea SolerT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-30 | | | Interview: Joan GreerT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-11-30 | | | Interview: Dwayne DonaldT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-03 | | | Interview: Marija PetrovicT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-03 | | | Interview: Janice MakokisT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-03 | | | Interview: Lianne LefsrudT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-04 | | | Interview: Nima Gerami SereshtT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-04 | | | Interview: Anne NaethT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-04 | | | Research Archive: Rhys Williams Talk, “Generic Energetic: Contemporary Popular Genres as Tools for Transition”T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-06 | | | Interview: Danika Jorgensen-SkakumT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-23 | | | Interview: Sheena WilsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-23 | | | Interview: Mike MellrossT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-23 | | | Interview: Sheena WilsonT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-25 | | | Interview: Raquel (Rocky) FeroeT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-25 | | | Interview: Pedram MousaviT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-25 | | | Interview: Holly Mazur & Myles BellandT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-25 | | | Interview: Natalie LovelessT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-28 | | | Interview: Charles StubblefieldT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-28 | | | Interview: Jessie BeierT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-28 | | | Interview: Sourayan MookerjeaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-01-28 | | | CoLAB/IRS/Space & Culture Meeting: Energy ImaginariesThis event featured a test-run of the Perfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition role-playing game, developed by Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea. The Perfect Storm game enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada, while also providing an opportunity to examine gamification as an instrument of spectacular participation. How might you prevent a ‘perfect storm’ of ongoing climate change events through energy transition politics and policy?
T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-10-26 | Mookerjea, S., Charles Stubblefield, Ipek Oskay, Jessie Beier, Danika Jorgensen Skakum | | Just Powers: Energy. Feminism. Decolonized Futures.Just Powers as Feminist Intercultural Intermedia Interruption - Sheena Wilson
Subalternity, the Fetish and Energetic Common-Being - Sourayan Mookerjea
A Cree Vision for the Future: An Indigenous Feminist Analysis of Maintaining a Land Based Culture While Surrounded by An Oil Economy -Angele Alook
Sensing the Anthropocene: Aesthetic Attunement in an Age of Urgency - Natalie Loveless
Documenting Designs for the Future - Mary Elizabeth LukaT04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-08-31 | | | CoLAB Meeting: Energy Imaginaries + The Perfect Storm: Energy Transition GameThis event featured a test-run of the Perfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition role-playing game, developed by Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea. The Perfect Storm game enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada, while also providing an opportunity to examine gamification as an instrument of spectacular participation. How might you prevent a ‘perfect storm’ of ongoing climate change events through energy transition politics and policy?T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-10-26 | Mookerjea, S., Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Jessie Beier, Charles Stubblefield, Ipek Oskay, Danika Jorgensen Skakum | | PerfectStorm! Feminist Renewable Energy Transition RPGPerfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition is an interactive, role-playing game that enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada.
In small groups, Perfect Storm players assume roles and respond to dynamic game situations, trying to prevent a perfect storm of catastrophic climate change by shifting Alberta to renewable energy.
This was a special facilitation of the game for the University of Alberta's Office of Sustainability.T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-04-05 | Mookerjea, S., Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Charles Stubblefield, Ipek Oskay, Danika Jorgensen Skakum, Jordan Kinder | | Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #3 PI and Co-I led this intensive 4-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-12 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, "Ruth Beer ", "Sean Caulfield ", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Joan Greer ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Luke Johnson ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Janice Makokis ", "Lisa Moore ", "Tegan Moore ", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood ", "Rachel Snow ", "Diana Steinhauer ", "Clarence Whitestone ", "Kurtis McAdam " | | Climate Change Theatre Action: A Panel Discussion and Play ReadingA public reading and performance of short climate change plays presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations COP meetings. This event was organized by Selena Couture and Stefano Muneroni at the University of Alberta.T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-05 | | | Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #2PI and Co-I led this intensive 4-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project at the Banff Centre for the Arts.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-06-03 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, "Soheila Esfahani ", Davies, E., "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Tegan Moore ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", "Sean Caulfield ", "Joan Greer ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Janice Makokis ", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood ", "Rachel Snow ", "Caitlin Fischer ", "Lisa Moore ", "Ruth Beer " | | Speculative Energy Futures: Workshop #1PI and Co-I led this intensive 3-day research creation workshop for the participants of the Speculative Energy Futures project.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-03-09 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Mookerjea, S., Jessie Beier, Simpson, M., "Ruth Beer ", "Sean Caulfield ", "Salvatore Cucchiara ", Davies, E., "Soheila Esfahani ", "Joan Greer ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Ursula Johnson ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", MaryElizabeth Luka, "Patrick Mahon ", "Janice Makokis ", "Tegan Moore ", "Lisa Moore ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", "Scott Smallwood " | | Rhys Williams Talk, Generic Energetic: Contemporary Popular Genres as Tools for TransitionT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-04-06 | | | Behind the Scenes: iDoc and Future Energy SystemsT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2017-11-29 | | | Understanding How Society Will Change as We Move to Renewable Energy SourcesT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-03-29 | | | Future Energy Systems Hosts First Research SymposiumT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-04-04 | | | Petrocultures 2018 T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-12-03 | | | « Une exposition pour explorer les futurs énergétiques »Written and radio profile on the SEF exhibition in December 2019, "Prototypes for Possible Worlds."T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-17 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, "Ruth Beer ", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield ", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Joan Greer ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Luke Johnson ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Janice Makokis ", "Lisa Moore ", "Tegan Moore ", Mookerjea, S., Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood ", "Rachel Snow ", "Diana Steinhauer ", "Clarence Whitestone ", "Kurtis McAdam " | | Art exhibition explores energy futuresT04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-19 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, "Ruth Beer ", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield ", Davies, E., "Wallace Edwards ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Joan Greer ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", Mookerjea, S., "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Luke Johnson ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Janice Makokis ", "Lisa Moore ", "Tegan Moore ", Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood ", "Rachel Snow ", "Diana Steinhauer ", "Clarence Whitestone ", "Kurtis McAdam " | | Panel Discussion: The Assault on TruthT04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-21 | | | Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms: Passive revolution, fascism redux and utopian praxesT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-03-17 | | | Intermedia Research Creation and Hydrapolitics: Counter-environments of the CommonsT04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2019-12-01 | | | Accumulated Violence, or, the Wars of Exploitation: Notes toward a post- Western MarxismT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Publication | 2018-09-01 | | | Toxic Media Ecologies 3: Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary CrisisThe third Toxic Media Ecologies conference, organized by Dr. Mookerjea.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-02 | | | Intermedia Research Studio Meeting: Intermedia Research-CreationT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-11-01 | | | The Contemporary Crisis of ScienceSymposium organized by Dr. Mookerjea.T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-31 | | | World-ecology and Hydrapolitics: Interlocking Oppressions in the Age of ExhaustionT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-02-07 | | | Molecular Media for Capital Sequestration: Interlocking Oppressions and Just TransitionsT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-10-21 | | | PerfectStorm! Feminist Renewable Energy Transition RPGPerfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition is an interactive, role-playing game that enables players to explore the cultural and class politics of energy transition in Canada.
In small groups, Perfect Storm players assume roles and respond to dynamic game situations, trying to prevent a perfect storm of catastrophic climate change by shifting Alberta to renewable energy.
This was a special facilitation of the game for Speculative Energy Futures.T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-06-03 | | | Intermedia Research Studio Orientation: Research Creation Maker Space Open HouseT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-28 | | | Critical Theory of Technology Reading + Working Group SeriesOngoing bimonthly series at Intermedia Research StudioT04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2018-09-28 | | | Theory of molecular media capable of supporting sympoietic regenerationT04-P03 University of Alberta | IP Management | 2017-09-01 | | | Spores of Critique: On the Aesthetics and Poetics of Critical Practice SeriesOngoing bimonthly series started January 2019T04-P01, T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-01-01 | | | Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Energy Futuresan online exhibition
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2021-04-07 | | | Inverse Insulations in a Seed Time Poem Cycle"Inverse Insulations in a Seed Time Poem Cycle," Digital Video, 8 minutes, 2020. Displayed in the online exhibition , organized by The Embassy Cultural House and GardenShip and State.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-04-22 | | | Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Futures"Speculative Energy Futures: Prototypes for Possible Worlds" was a research-creation exhibition that showcased some of the initial explorations from the first year of a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-year project that brings together artists, designers, activists, engineers, policy makers, scientists, humanists, social scientists, Indigenous legal experts and more, to inquire into the complex intersections of climate change and energy transition as interlocking sites of possibility as we imagine/model a range of potential low-carbon just futures.
The "Seed Time: Sister Plantings for Regenerative Futures" research-creation project probes the slow speeds and infrastructural properties of Earth-bound seeds for political models of: (i) negentropic renewable energy; (ii) feminist conviviality and solidarity; (iii) regenerative gift and care economies; and (iv) zineseed-like molecular media for DIY serial reproducibility and learning-by-making. Seed time is composed of memory-storage, dispersal, pryiscence, imbibition, respiration, light, mobilization, sprouting, growth, and regeneration through which negentropic common-being creates a place for Earth-bound lifetimes, giving wisdom, taking care and creating common wealth. Past, present and future non-extractivist seed-communication points towards deep energy transitions to slow futures. The possibility for delinking from the toxic waste economy may be searched for by engaging with "seed Time."
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | | | Utopian and Regenerative Praxes, Degrowth, Crises and the Revenants of Racial CapitalismFredric Jameson’s injunction to “always historicize” (1984) applies no less to our conjunctural proliferation of crises. Not only have these all been long in the making but the 20th century trajectories of the exhaustion of historical natures (Moore 2015) ensure that environmental crises will continue to constitute the fulcrum around which class politics and imperialist war on a planetary scale will turn. This paper argues for a spatialized theory of class politics adequate to contemporary racial capitalism’s twinned auto-immune reactions of green passive revolution and fascism redux. Paramilitary violence against environmental justice and anti-poverty activists and, more generally, militarized policing and (extra-)legal repression of subalternized classes and communities in the name of climate action, resilience infrastructure and national security are emerging modalities of development dispossession resulting from speculative investment opportunities provided by smart green urban renewal (Caprotti 2014), industrial corridor geopolitics (Ramachandraiah 2016) and land grabs for solar farms (Yenetti et al. 2016, Rignall 2016), wind farms (Cormack 2018), biofuels (Renzaho 2017) and carbon sinks (Fairhead et al. 2012). Drawing on research conducted through the University of Alberta’s Feminist Energy Futures initiative on the class and cultural politics of renewable energy democracy and bringing together the theoretical insights of the literatures on varieties of capitalism, the multiple colonialisms framework, feminist social reproduction and subsistence perspectives as well as post-Western Marxism’s account of interlocking systems of oppression, this paper examines the prospects for the Left’s intervention in the speculative complex of passive revolution and fascism redux. The paper takes up the debate on the state between eco-socialists (Burkett, 2006, Lowy 2015) and the degrowth movement (Jackson 2017, Kallis 2017, Mies 2000, de Angelis 2017, Federici 2011) through the detour of a critical engagement with Jameson’s redeployment of Lenin’s classical transition theory of dual power. (2016)
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-25 | | | On the Communicability of the Future: The Class and Cultural Politics of Energy Democracy and Climate Action in CanadaThe class and cultural politics of low-carbon energy transition now imposes itself on an ever widening range of social movement mobilization, both explicitly and implicitly, as the role of environmental crises in the making and unfolding of social injustices comes to be more widely understood (global warming especially). In the oil producing Canadian province of Alberta, social justice movement articulations of alternative visions of the future, in order to be possible must not only be communicable, but must also negotiate with (in order to criticize or displace them) scientistic, technocratic and “business as usual” models, projections and transition pathways constructed by a nexus of governmental agencies, energy industries and ngos like the World Energy Council as well as with racist and neo-fascist conspiracy theories and apocalyptic fantasies. This paper, drawing on my ongoing research, Feminist Energy Futures: Powershift and Environmental Social Justice, examines the ideological, media, and cultural-political strategies of climate action, energy democracy and just transition activism, protest and movement-building across a range of social movement organizations and popular cultural formations in Canada including Indigenous Climate Action, Blue Green Canada, The Leap, Climate Justice Edmonton, Extinction Rebellion, Our Time (for a Green New Deal), the Alberta Federation of Labour and their publics and constituencies. In doing so, I take an intermedia ecological approach which draws upon the theoretical insights and methodological strategies of Canadian communication theory, cultural studies, political ecology, the critique of political economy, post-Western Marxism, critical race theory, social reproduction and subsistence perspective feminism in order to interrogate the conjunctural conditions of communicability of regenerative futures and real utopias. The paper thereby seeks to draw lessons from the contradictions of proprietorial class power and of anti-systemic social movement futurism for the theory and praxis of degrowth, commoning and eco-socialism.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-02-27 | | | Decolonizing Degrowth/Pluriversal RegenerationIn recent years, through the contestation of symbolic figures, campaigns such as #RhodesMustFall have highlighted the lasting impact of colonialism in the public realm. These campaigns exist alongside wider debates about the less visible legacy of colonialism in contemporary power relations and the ongoing exclusions and oppressions that they sustain. In the education sector, and in Universities in particular, these discussions have prompted reflection on the possibilities and advantages of decolonising the curriculum. Attempts to diversify a Euro-centric and culturally hegemonic syllabus, have revealed more deep-rooted, structural challenges than a mere re-shuffling of the personnel that appear on reading lists. At the same time, important discussions have started in a wide range of research fields and disciplines on the colonial assumptions underpinning established intellectual traditions and research practices. This project poses the question of what it means to decolonise the methodologies used for engaging in intellectual production. We need to ask whether the concepts and questions through which we inscribe our inquiries are committed to modes of thought that perpetuate and sustain coloniality.
The Critical Theory in Hard Times research network was initiated in February 2019 at Manchester Metropolitan with a research cluster event centred on the question: ‘What does it means to be critical today?’ This academic year, we hope to reflect on the relationship between coloniality and critical thought today. Our efforts as a network to re-think critical theory beyond the silos of particular traditions of critical traditions (including but not limited to postcolonial and decolonial thought, feminism, critical race theory, Frankfurt School, Gramscian, Bourdieusian, Foucauldian approaches, deconstruction), lead us to ask about the potential for dialogue and engagement between these approaches concerning the question of (de)colonisation. This workshop will ask to what extent a dialogue between these traditions, or a clarification of the terms of their incompatibility, can contribute towards identifying the resources that they provide towards creating a global critical theory.
We are looking to experiment with the format of our engagement by hosting less formal modes of presentation in order to encourage discussions between contributors rather than a series of presentations.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-05 | | | Energy Emergency Repair KitResearch-creation art-bookT04-P01, T04-P02 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2022-04-23 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, "Joan Greer ", "Tsema Igharas ", Mookerjea, S., "tegan moore ", Moore, L., "catlin kelly-kuzyk ", "jerome tave ", "kyle lawson " | | Environmental and Climate Justice Perspectives on the UNFCC Conference of PartiesThree workshops held between 1-3:30 pm MST on May 12, 2021.
Workshop 1 Growth, Degrowth and Regeneration; Workshop 2 Climate Finance and Ecological Debt; Workshop 3 Regenerative Alternatives to Racial Capitalism and Colonialism.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-05-12 | | | Environmental Studies Association of Canada conference at Congress 21Film screening of "Pikopaywin: It is broken" and subsequent discussion. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-06-03 | | | Racial Capitalism, Multiple Colonialisms and the (post-)Fossil Frontier: Green New Deals, Green Passive Revolution (and Fascism Redux)T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-06-30 | | | Interlocking Oppressions at the Bitumen Frontier: Notes on a Dialectic of Subsistence Regeneration and Feminist DegrowthT04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-07-07 | | | Introduction to GlobalizationSOC 269: Introduction to Globalization
Fall 2021 term: September 1 - December 7, 2021
MW 14:00 - 15:20T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2021-09-01 | | | Special Topics: Commons and Climate JusticeSOC402 Special Topics: Commons and Climate Justice
Winter 2022: January 5 - April 8, 2022
T 09:00 - 11:50T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-01-05 | | | Commons and Climate JusticeSOC502 Special Topics: Commons and Climate Justice
Winter 2022: January 5 - April 8, 2022
T 09:00 - 11:50T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-01-05 | | | Prototypes for Possible Worlds ExhibitionExhibition ran from December 10, 2019 - January 11, 2020. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2019-12-10 | "Ruth Beer ", Jessie Beier, "Sean Caulfield ", "Evan Davies ", "Wallace Edwards ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Joan Greer ", "Steven Hoffman ", "Tsēmā Igharas ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Luke Johnson ", Natalie Loveless, "Patrick Mahon ", "Janice Makokis ", "Kurtis MacAdam ", "Lisa Moore ", "Tegan Moore ", Mookerjea, S., Simpson, M., "Scott Smallwood ", "Rachel Snow ", "Diana Steinheuer ", "Clarence Whitestone ", Wilson, S. | | Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate JusticeFrom 7-18 November 2022 Contextual Studies welcomed sixteen members of the Speculative Energy Futures (SEF) team to the University of St. Gallen as SQUARE’s inaugural artists-in-residence (three members were virtual, the remainder were in-person). Visiting Professor and SEF Principal Investigator Dr. Sheena Wilson led a two-week intensive course titled “Energy Transition: Pathways to Climate Justice,” taught with project co-lead Dr. Natalie Loveless and featuring lectures, seminar discussions, workshops, and guest-presentations by thirteen SEF team members. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., Natalie Loveless, Hartlieb-Power, J., "Ruth Beer ", "Patrick Mahon ", Mookerjea, S., "Janice Makokis ", "Kurtis McAdam ", "Tsema Igharas ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Evan Davies ", "Sean Caulfield ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Lisa Moore ", "Scott Smallwood " | | We Were In It: Very Short Stories About EnergyAn interactive installation for "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
We Were In It: Very Short Stories About Energy is a 180-page book of creative fiction written by Speculative Energy Futures team members during a series of writing workshops hosted by award-winning Canadian novelist and SEF team member Lisa Moore. Following writing prompts that supported non-fiction writers in finding new voices to explore anxieties, hopes, and fears surrounding energy transition, 14 members of the team came together to write 43 speculative stories about energy and energy transition, these were then illustrated by the artist Kamei Lim. The book ends with 4 prompts to inspire you to share your stories.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | Wilson, S., "Lisa Moore ", "Ruth Beer ", Mookerjea, S., "Soheila Esfahani ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Evan Davies ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Luke Johnson ", Natalie Loveless, "Kurtis McAdam ", "Janice Makokis ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Scott Smallwood " | | Indigenous Lives and Livelihoods near the Alberta Tar/Oilsands: In Conversation with Angele AlookAngele Alook, researcher for Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Indigenous sociologist/collaborator with Just Powers, and a member of Bigstone Cree Nation, discusses Indigenous womanhood, colonization, feminism, and Bigstone Cree Nation's relationships with energy industries.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Indigenous Governance, Resource Extraction and Stewardship: In Conversation with Josie AugerJosie Auger, member of and a councillor for Bigstone Cree First Nation, on the importance of the land in the Nehiyawak belief system, colonization, treaties, water, and both present and future relationships with extractive energy industries.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Indigenous Action on Climate: In Conversation with Eriel Tchekwie DerangerEriel Tchekwie Deranger, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Director and Co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action, discusses Healing Walks, the economy, and decolonization.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | On Alberta Climate Dialogues (ABCD): In Conversation with David KahaneDavid Kahane, political science professor and the former Project Director of Alberta Climate Dialogue, discusses the development and learnings of the ABCD project.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | On Future Energy Systems and the role of FES in the Future: In Conversation with Larry KostiukLarry Kostiuk, the Director of Future Energy Systems, on the creation of FES and his thoughts on the future landscape of energy.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | On the Role of Edmonton Municipal Government in Energy Transition: In Conversation with Andrea LinskyAndrea Linsky, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton, discusses her position, energy in Alberta, women's contributions to energy conversations, and energy resilientT04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Idle No More, Indigenous Law and Trudeau's Indigenous Framework: In Conversation with Janice MakokisJanice Makokis of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, an advisor and policy analyst working with Onion Lake Cree Nation, and an organizer with Idle No More, speaks about the federal government's Indigenous Rights Framework, decolonization, treaty rights and relationships, and women's roles in First Nations laws and legal orders.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | City of Edmonton Energy, Transition and Leadership: In Conversation with Mike MellrossMike Mellross, General Supervisor of Energy Transition and Utility Supply Management for the City of Edmonton, on the City's climate change initiatives and Edmonton's possible energy and climate change futures.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | iDoc, Energy Commons and the Role of Social Movements: In Conversation with Sourayan MookerjeaSourayan Mookerjea, Director of the Intermedia Research Studio and Co-Investigator on iDoc and Feminist Energy Futures, discusses his research on commoning, molecular media, and his feminist renewable energy transition role playing game, Perfect Storm!T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Historical Capitalism, Oikos and the Ecological Crisis: In Conversation with Jason MooreJason Moore, Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University and author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, on capitalism, cheap nature, and the economy over the last few centuries.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Treaty Rights, Traplines and Resisting Oil and Gas on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Cindy NoskiyeCindy Noskiye, member of Bigstone Cree Nation and Environment Officer for the Bigstone Lands Office, on the impact of industry on land rights and land use.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-30 | | | On Intergenerational Knowledge and Living off the Land on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Elder Eliza OrrElder Eliza Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses living off the land and shares her experiences with energy industries.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | Intergenerational Knowledge, Residential Schools and Healing: In Conversation with Elder Verna Orr Elder Verna Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses her role as a Cultural Advisor at NAIT and how she shares land teachings with her grandchildren.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | City of Edmonton and the Change for Climate Program: In Conversation with Andrea SolerAndrea Soler, Senior Community Strategist for the City of Edmonton's Energy Transition Unit, on consumerism culture and gendered reactions to climate change.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | City of Edmonton Residential Energy Efficiency and Sharing Economies: In Conversation with Robyn WebbRobyn Webb, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton, discusses transit-oriented and sustainable urban development.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-06-30 | | | The Scope of Just Powers: iDoc, Speculative Energy Futures and More: In Conversation with Sheena WIlsonSheena Wilson, Just Powers Principal Investigator, English and Cultural Studies professor at the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, and Co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group, discusses the various projects under the Just Powers banner, women's participation in energy transition initiatives, and decolonization.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-04-25 | | | Traplines and Resisting the Impacts of Oil and Forestry Industries on Bigstone Cree Nation: In Conversation with Elder Albert YellowkneeElder Albert Yellowknee from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses his experience with logging around his family's traplines and the impact of logging on human and non-human animals.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2020-06-30 | | | Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.)The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (EERK) is a speculative emergency kit that takes the form of a binder with emergency instructions and two cassette tapes with important information for survival, written from the perspective of a future apocalypse. The joke is that while the first cassette tape is available, should such old technology be found somewhere, explaining the apocalyptic situation, the second cassette tape with all of the answers has been taken over by mycelium and cannot be played. The moral: no one has the answers and we must all speculate and explore together, thinking in yet unthought directions, if there is any hope of collective survival.
At SQUARE, two members of the EERK team will activate and generate discussion surrounding prompts in the Kit. These will include: Nuclear Waste Safe Storage Protocol; Signalling the Energy Emergency, Ecological Debt Recovery Procedure; and the "Fungal-mentals" of Mycelial Energetics. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | | | Seed Time²Presented as part of the exhibition "Unpacking Energy Transition (FluxKit Beta Tests)" at SQUARE, University of ST. Gallen, Switzerland (November 7-11, 2022).
Seed Time² is a real and virtual “printing press” organized as a feminist media cooperative. It utilizes DIY (Do-It-Yourself) and avant-garde art methodologies, such as those associated with Fluxus (which emphasizes the process of artistic creation over the finished product), to disseminate decolonial strategies related to renewable energy transition. Seed Time² helps us imagine how we might dismantle oppressive institutions and practices, de-grow toxic, unjust economies and systems, and regenerate ecologies by placing feminist practices, values, and labours of care at the centre of our communities, economies, and societies.
At SQUARE, Seed Time² is activated through metaphoric and actual components related to seeds and their renewable energy: planting, pollination, germination, tending/nurturing, harvesting, gentle consumption, and composting for de-growing carbon and energy intensive food systems and agriculture, among other things. Cards distributed throughout SQUARE are meant to be taken away by visitors and include poems and seed motifs to generate discussion and thinking around carbon capture, regenerating biodiversity, intervening in the politics of land grabbing for mega-energy developments, and promoting feminist education, solidarity, and conviviality.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-11-07 | | | Speculative Molecular Intermediain this presentation for Petrocultures 2022: Transformation, Dr. Mookerjea discussed time-bias poems he composed for three collaborative group research-creation probes, The Energy Emergency Repair Kit, and Seed Time 1 and 2, created for the Speculative Energy Futures research project. Drawing on subsistence perspective ecofeminist degrowth theory, world-ecology, and, the work of Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis, he examined the historical constraints and contradictions through which these research-creation works seed the possibility of critique and regenerative praxis in the ruins of the colonial regime of art.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-08-24 | | | Petrocultures 2022: TransformationsChair for Petrocultures 2022: Transformations virtual panel Intermedia Research-Creation, Resistance Visual Art and Ecological Envisioning: Regenerative Sympoesis Beyond Petrocultures with panelists Ruth Beer, Lisa Moore, and Sourayan Mookerjea. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-08-24 | | | Toxic Media Ecologies, Virtuous Vulnerabilities and Molecular IntermediaWhat stuff are societies made of today? What is the relationship between globalization as the movement of goods and money, as property and the reality of human and non-human body flows? How can the basic composition of the ego be described and how can it become the source of the common? What steps are conceivable to stop the permanent destruction of material and other assets? What elements would make up a political philosophy and practice of semi-permeable borders? How does one write a constitution for the coexistence of all mortals?
These and similar questions are currently driving not only science, but also philosophy and art. But they are far too big for a simple answer to make a difference in concrete life processes and economic, political, artistic contexts. The symposium The strengths of the weaknesses. societies in troubled timesis therefore dedicated to selected scenes and problem areas in which the vulnerability of the fabric of life becomes political and/or promising forms of dealing with the injuries of the Capitalocene are shown. Approaches and forms of practice are presented and discussed that turn alleged inability into assets. It is about artistic, political and philosophical approaches that deal with weakness, contamination, the ruinous, loss or mortality in a way that reverses these supposedly deficient moments in such a way that they become skills: vulnerability becomes openness for wounds; a skill in dealing with fragility; an ability to open up even in risky situations, to let the unknown and the astonishing approach you; to get involved with the other without fear, or also: to let him/her/it be. It is about an ethics of the individual, of half measures and partial alliances. It's about countering fantasies of purity that are currently picking up speed again with knowledgeable navigation in the impure. It's about locating what connects what divides and freeing concepts such as society, community and belonging from the grip of family and nation.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2022-12-16 | | | Why are feminist perspectives, analyses, and actions vital to degrowth?FaDA Writing Collective: Corinna Dengler, Nadine Gerner, Taís Sonetti-González, Lina Hansen, Sourayan Mookerjea, Susan Paulson, and Anna Saave.
This essay explores feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems, which are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems. Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodox
degrowth movements. In dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, indigenous, and anti-racist
efforts, intersectional feminisms have been unlearning and disrupting conventional politics of
knowing and action in ways that help forge more inclusive understandings and applications
necessary for degrowth futures.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2023-05-03 | | | Hegemony without hegemony: Gramsci, Guha and post-Western MarxismThis chapter focuses on Ranajit Guha’s critical reformulation of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony for understanding colonial state formation and defends his thesis of an ‘autonomous domain of subaltern politics’. Reading Ranajit Guha’s masterwork, Dominance without Hegemony (1997), in relation to Jacques Rancière’s historiographical theorization in The Names of History (1994), this chapter articulates the constellation of a historiographical narrative poetics of contradiction in Guha’s engagement with Gramsci’s problematic in order to historicize the concept of hegemony for our present. The chapter argues that Guha’s concept of an ‘autonomous domain of subaltern politics’ is both relevant and critical necessary for a pluriversal, post-Western Marxist theory and historiography, and that the domain of the social reproduction of means of subsistence, in its separation from the formal domain of capitalist commodity production, constitutes an autonomous domain of subaltern class politics, global in scale.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2024-01-12 | | | Molecular media and the society of platform spectacleThis essay examines the core theses of Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (1996) and Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (1942) from the perspective of Harold A. Innis's Tendencies in Communication (1951). I want to understand theoretically how the toxic intermedia ecology of today's surveillance platform capitalism has functioned in the long period of racial capitalism. The argument is based on the fact that regenerative molecular media in interaction with an anti-fascist-oriented popular culture - now that tactical media has become obsolete as a critical strategy - become historically necessary. These are based on mere subsistence, as economic growth no longer prevails. They are to be understood as speculative molecular media that are able to theorize their prototypical possibilities.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2024-01-24 | | | The Colonizers’ Model of ModellingPerformance lecture for The Institution of Knowledge Exhibition, which showcased research-in-action performances and installations that investigate the structures of knowledge currently configuring cultural and educational institutions, and that work to highlight forms of knowledge that have historically been excised from such spaces.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-17 | | | Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening For RepairThe Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy; emergency; repair. The E.E.R.K combines image, text, and sound to riff on the idea of a repair manual—that staple genre of self-help and self-making—while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers. The panel presentation introduced the various sonic dimensions and dynamics of the E.E.R.K. so as to explore the import of sound for the reckoning of energy and its emergencies.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-02 | | | The Colonizers’ Model of Modelling Art InstallationArt installation for the Institution of Knowledge exhibition. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-16 | | | Critical Energy Research and the Molecular Media of PraxisThis invited talk was given as part of a round table discussion with guest speakers Sourayan Mookerjea (University of Alberta) and Mijin Cha (UC Santa Cruz) in celebration of a new book - Energy and Environmental Justice: Energy and Environmental Justice Movements, Solidarities, and Critical Connections - by Tristan Partridge (UC Santa Barbara / CREW co-founder).T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-25 | | | On the Geopolitics of Contamination: Research-Creation Notes for a Degrowth AestheticMookerjea's talk draws upon subsistence perspective ecofeminist degrowth theory, world-ecology and intermedia theory in order to provide a critical overview of how the impact of proliferating ecological crisis can be better understood in terms of the accumulated violence of interlocking oppressions, multiple colonialisms and ecologically unequal exchange characteristic of the longue durée of racial capitalism. Examining examples of environmental racism and environmental injustice in Canada, India and the global South, this lecture outlines the importances of feminist, anti-racist, eco-socialist and degrowth politics for advancing renewable energy system change and for delinking from our contemporary, crisis-prone global political economy. Drawing on recent research-creation interventions from the Speculative Energy Futures collaborative research project, the talk concludes with a consideration of the twin roles of speculative and regenerative molecular intermedia for inhabiting conjunctural contradictions and for organizing enduring subsistence political ecologies.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-10-27 | | | Racial Capitalism in Canada: Lessons for the Environmental Justice MovementDrawing from his monograph in preparation, "Interlocking Racisms: Multiple Colonialisms, Accumulated Violence, and Degrowth Plenitude," Sourayan Mookerjea interrogates the limits and possibilities of climate and environmental justice mobilization around the slogan of a green new deal in Canada. Despite this movement’s enthusiasm for the cultural politics of Indigenous Resurgence and its rhetorical support for decolonization, Indigenous land based sovereignty organizations keep themselves at a distance from its conventional statist political imaginary. Moreover, a northern-centred, climate emergency panicked imaginary seems to be losing popular momentum in a conjuncture marked by green passive revolution and fascism redux. This is taking place both nationally and transnationally while new formations of interlocking racisms enable the advance of class projects from above. Sourayan Mookerjea examines the crisis prone fault lines of this emergent conjuncture in Canadian society historically. He foregrounds the Canadian state’s articulation through interlocking neocolonial systems of oppression and argues for the importance of molecular social revolution against toxic cultures of empire now weaponized on replay.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-02-15 | | | The Bitumen Commodity Frontier and Climate/Environmental JusticePublic talk given at the Social Spatialisation & Spatial Justice Workshop. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-03-28 | | | The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called CanadaSeminar on Angele Alook for the Intermedia Research Studio at the University of Alberta. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-02-08 | | | A People’s Green New DealSeminar on M. Ajl at the Intermedia Research Studio, University of Alberta. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-05-09 | | | Highlight: Angele Alook on Fracking in Bigstone Cree NationDocumentary interview with Angele Alook, researcher for Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Indigenous sociologist/collaborator with Just Powers, and a member of Bigstone Cree Nation, on fracking in Bigstone Cree Nation.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Angele Alook on Indigenous SovereigntyHighlight of an interview with Angele Alook, researcher for Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Indigenous sociologist/collaborator with Just Powers, and a member of Bigstone Cree Nation, on Indigenous sovereignty and relationships with the land.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Cindy Noskiye, Environment Officer at Bigstone Lands Office on the Impacts of DevelopmentHighlight of interview with Cindy Noskiye, member of Bigstone Cree Nation and Environment Officer for the Bigstone Lands Office, on the wildlife impacts of industrial development.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: David Kahane on Shaping Our Energy FutureHighlight of an interview with David Kahane, political science professor and the former Project Director of Alberta Climate Dialogue, on how societal values shape energy futures.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Elder Albert Yellowknee of Bigstone Cree Nation on Caring for the LandHighlight of interview with Elder Albert Yellowknee from Bigstone Cree Nation on taking care of the land for future generations.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Elder Mike Beaver of Bigstone Cree Nation on his Hopes for the FutureHighlight of an interview with Elder Mike Beaver from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses his hopes for the future and Indigenous knowledges.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Elder Mike Beaver of Bigstone Cree Nation on the Importance of WaterHighlight of interview with Elder Mike Beaver from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses the importance of water for ecosystems and community livelihoods.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | iDoc Highlight Video: Eriel Deranger on DecolonizationHighlight of interview with Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Director and Co-founder of Indigenous Climate Action, on how society could become more balanced without the violence of petro-capitalism.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Kim TallBear on WhitenessHighlight of an interview with Kim TallBear, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People's Technoscience and Environment, an associate professor in the faculty of Native Studies, and an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, on whiteness, white subjectivity, and the privileging of non-Indigenous knowledges.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Robyn Webb, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton on Design and SustainabilityHighlight of interview with Robyn Webb, Senior Environmental Project Manager at the City of Edmonton, on cities and sustainable design.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Sheena Wilson on Mobilizing for More Just FuturesHighlight of an interview with Sheena Wilson, Just Powers Principal Investigator, English and Cultural Studies professor at the University of Alberta's Campus Saint-Jean, and Co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group, on mobilizing for more just futures.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Highlight: Sourayan Mookerjea on the CommonsHighlight of an interview with Sourayan Mookerjea, Director of the Intermedia Research Studio and Co-Investigator on iDoc and Feminist Energy Futures, discussing the commons.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Elder Albert Yellowknee of Bigstone Cree Nation on the Impacts of Logging on Human and Non-Human Animals (Treaty 8 Cree Language Video)Interview with Elder Albert Yellowknee of Bigstone Cree Nation on the Impacts of Logging on Human and Non-Human Animals
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Elder Eliza Orr of Bigstone Cree Nation on her Experience With the Energy IndustryHighlight of an interview with Elder Eliza Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses living off the land and shares her experiences with energy industries.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Elder Ray Peters of Bigstone Cree First Nation on Land based Learning, Language and HistoryElder Ray Peters of Bigstone Cree First Nation on land based learning, language, history, and education.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | iDoc Interview: Elder Ray Peters (Cree)Elder Ray Peters of Bigstone Cree First Nation on land based learning, language, history, and education.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Elder Verna Orr of Bigstone Cree Nation on her Role as Cultural Advisor at NAIT and Sharing Land Teachings with her GrandchildrenElder Verna Orr from Bigstone Cree Nation discusses her role as a Cultural Advisor at NAIT and how she shares land teachings with her grandchildren.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Chief Gordon Auger of Bigstone Cree Nation on Treaty Land Entitlement Claims and Upholding Treaty PromisesIn this interview, Chief Gordon Auger of Bigstone Cree Nation discusses his experience with Treaty Land Entitlement claims and upholding treaty promises.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Randall Noskiye of Bigstone Cree Nation, Environment Officer for the Bigstone Lands Office on the Impact of Industry on Treaty Land RightsRandall Noskiye, member of Bigstone Cree Nation and Environment Officer for the Bigstone Lands Office, on land rights and traditional hunting, trapping, and fishing in relation to the impacts of nearby industry.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | Elders Donald Alook, Manager of Culture and Recreation for Bigstone, and Bertha Alook of Peekiskwetan" Lets Talk "Agency on Wellness, Employment Initiatives, and the Impacts of Industry on BigstoneElder Donald Alook, Manager of Culture and Recreation for Bigstone First Nation, and Elder Bertha Alook of Peekiskwetan Let’s Talk Agency, on recreational, wellness, and employment initiatives and the impacts of industry on Bigstone.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-06-30 | | | E.E.R.K. (Energy Emergency Repair Kit)T04-P01, T04-P02 University of Alberta | Publication | 2024-05-12 | | | E.E.R.K.: ENERGY EMERGENCY REPAIR KITA fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergencies. The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. The E.E.R.K combines image, text, and sound to riff on the idea of a repair manual—that staple genre of self-help and self-making—while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers.
Created collectively by artists, designers, and scholars working and living at various places on Turtle Island, the E.E.R.K. offers a host of situated activities and speculative probes designed to respond to today and tomorrow’s energy emergencies. The kit intermingles diagrammatic designs with instructional convolutions and perplexing protocols that supply non-programmatic yet highly pragmatic means for navigating, communicating, operating, and undoing the investments that have come to overdetermine energetic relations in the past, present, and future. Triggered most immediately by the pandemic moment circa 2020, with its strangely intermittent and inscrutable convolutions of fossil-fueled business-as-usual, the E.E.R.K. reflects and reckons the long-roiling and fully chronic energy emergency orchestrated over several centuries by racial-fossil capitalism’s mass production of injustices.
The E.E.R.K. positions energy as more than just a resource to be exploited and managed, more than an infrastructural obstacle to overcome, more than fuel for the nightmares that lie ahead (or that are, in too many cases, already here). As a generative, multitudinous fabulation, the E.E.R.K. probes energetic networks—the bonds of endeavour; the glow of affection; the pulse of attunement; the drive of subtraction; the charge of uncertainty; the resilience of exhaustion; the obstinacy of making do; the shadow of fossils; the pull of futurity; the zeroes and ones; the force of an otherwise—that, together, seem to compose the circuits of energy emergency now.T04-P01 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2024-09-03 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Chandra Tomaras on Climate Resilience, Adaptation Strategies, and Environmental ManagementChandra Tomaras discusses her role as Program Manager for Climate Adaptation with the City of Edmonton, focusing on climate resilience, adaptation strategies, and environmental management. Topics include the distinction between climate mitigation (reducing greenhouse gases) and adaptation (preparing for climate impacts), her work on the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, and the development of Edmonton’s Environmental Management System branded as Enviso. She highlights initiatives like ISO 14001 certification and the Global Covenant of Mayors' commitment to climate change mitigation and adaptation. She reflects on Edmonton’s climate modeling efforts, addressing both historical and future risks, and the importance of public access to environmental data. She discusses the integration of resilience into urban planning, the challenges posed by acute shocks (extreme weather events) and chronic stresses (ecosystem shifts), and the need for collaboration across municipal, provincial, and federal levels. Tomaras also explores the role of gender in her team’s approach, emphasizing compassion and effective listening. She envisions Edmonton as a sustainable and resilient city, capable of thriving within its resources and preparing for the societal challenges posed by climate change. Her work is deeply inspired by a desire to create a better future for her children and the broader community.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Dwayne Donald on Holistic Learning, Indigenous Knowledge, and ReconciliationDwayne Donald discusses his work as an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, focusing on holistic approaches to learning, Indigenous knowledge systems, and the challenges of reconciliation. Topics include the cultural assumptions embedded in curriculum development, the concept of unlearning colonialism, and the need to repair and renew relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. He reflects on the decolonizing research sensibility, called Indigenous Métissage, which seeks to honor the complexity of cultural interactions and move beyond colonial logic. He elaborates on the importance of place-based education, drawing connections between ecological relationships and human identity. He shares insights from initiatives like the River Valley walks and a year-long course integrating seasonal and moon-based teachings, emphasizing the role of experiential learning in fostering relational ethics. He highlights Treaty 6 as an act of love and kinship, envisioning a future guided by balance, interconnectedness, and shared responsibility. Through his work, he aims to inspire a deeper understanding of the relationships that sustain life and the potential for transformative education to address the legacy of colonialism and environmental challenges.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Howaida Hassan on Energy Transition, Urban Planning, and Social ImpactHowaida Hassan discusses her role as a Senior Environmental Project Manager with the City of Edmonton, emphasizing the intersection of energy transition, urban planning, and social equity. Topics include her contributions to developing the city’s energy transition strategy, addressing greenhouse gas reductions, and fostering sustainable transportation systems. She reflects on the integration of transportation planning and energy efficiency, emphasizing co-benefits such as improved walkability, health, and urban density. She highlights Edmonton’s leadership in public transit, including its historical adoption of light rail transit (LRT), and the challenges of balancing technical efficiency, cost, and public preferences in transportation systems. She discusses the role of municipal government in supporting localized energy generation, such as microgrids, and the influence of provincial policies on private sector adaptation. Additionally, she reflects on the gender dynamics in engineering and energy fields, the value of multidisciplinary collaboration, and the importance of considering social impacts—particularly for marginalized communities—in municipal decision-making. She envisions a future where Edmonton’s built form supports connected, vibrant, and equitable communities that prioritize health, sustainability, and inclusivity for all residents.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Stefanie Drozoa on Community Engagement, Energy Transition, and Gender DynamicsStefanie Drozoa discusses her role as Outreach Coordinator for the Energy Transition Unit with the City of Edmonton, focusing on community engagement, energy transition programs, and public education. Topics include her work on public-facing initiatives like the Change for Climate campaign, promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy adoption among Edmontonians, and addressing misconceptions about energy transition. She highlights grassroots movements such as community gardens and solar initiatives, emphasizing their importance in normalizing sustainable behaviors. She reflects on her experiences engaging with diverse demographics at public events, addressing gender dynamics in energy-related discussions, and representing women in a field traditionally dominated by men. She shares insights on fostering local resilience through neighborhood-scale initiatives, leveraging municipal flexibility to adapt policies, and ensuring equitable representation in decision-making processes. Additionally, she discusses the challenges of communicating climate change strategies effectively and the role of municipalities in building trust and driving meaningful action at the community level.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Ève Robidoux-Descary on Feminism, Motherhood, and Leader de demain, au féminin! In this interview Ève Robidoux-Descary discusses her role as coordinator of “Coalition des femmes de l’Alberta’” program, “Leader de demain, au féminin!”. She talks about the gender disparity in the availability of tools at the leadership level. She discussed leading with the help of group feedback and leading through listening. She discusses the parallels and differences faced by women and indigenous groups when organizing and leading climate justice groups.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Nathalie Brunet on Leader de demain, au féminin! (French)In this interview Natalie Brunet discusses her learnings from her participation in the Edmonton based group “Leader de Démain au Feminin!”. One of the groups focusses was understanding indigenous Treaty rights here in Treat 6 and the various ways Treaty has been purposefully misread and misused by settlers. Brunet also talks about the complexities of climate work in political and economic contexts and the role women can play in the field of climate justice.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Diana Steinhauer Presentation at Coalition des Femmes de l'AlbertaDiana Steinhauer presents on Treaty, Law, Indigenous Sovereignty and Reconciliation, and the Role of Women.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Jiaqjang Yi on Self-Healing Hydrogel, Artificial Intelligence, and Renewable EnergyJiaqjang Yi discusses his master's research in chemical engineering, focusing on self-healing hydrogels and their applications in medical and material sciences. He reflects on the role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future and its potential to dominate multiple fields. He explores the need for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like solar, wind, tidal, and nuclear power. He emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary research and expresses interest in the development of innovative energy technologies to prepare for a post-fossil fuel era.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Jordan Kinder on Energy Humanities, Cultural Critique, and InterdisciplinarityJordan Kinder discusses his involvement in the Feminist Energy Futures project, focusing on digital media work, cultural dimensions of energy systems, and the role of interdisciplinary collaboration. He explores critical theory and radical-political perspectives on energy justice, critiques of greenwashing, and the sociopolitical implications of energy transitions. He reflects on challenges in achieving equitable energy systems, the impact of embedded assumptions in sustainability projects, and the potential for emerging technologies to shape social dynamics. He also examines constraints within academic and institutional frameworks and emphasizes the importance of addressing class- and gender-based inequities in energy discourse.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Lianne Lefsrud on Geothermal Energy, Risk Management, and Interdisciplinary CollaborationLianne Lefsrud discusses her work as an assistant professor in Engineering Safety and Risk Management, focusing on geothermal energy, climate change, and sustainability. Topics include the integration of engineering and social science methodologies, her role in repurposing suspended oil and gas wells for geothermal energy, the importance of risk management as a tool for corporate decision-making, and her work on organizational and technological change. She reflects on the role of gender in engineering, feminist leadership perspectives, and the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary research and collaboration with communities and regulatory bodies.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: M.E. Luka on Media, Feminism, and Energy SystemsMary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka discusses her work with Future Energy Systems and Feminist Energy Futures, focusing on media production, interdisciplinary collaboration, and feminist methodologies. Topics include her role in creating iDoc, a documentary project to explore energy transitions and social justice, strategies for integrating feminist and intersectional thinking into academic and community projects, and the use of media to foster dialogue and engagement. She reflects on leadership styles that prioritize equity, community building, and disruption of traditional institutional hierarchies. She also emphasizes the parallels between energy systems and communication infrastructures, exploring their societal impacts and potential for transformation.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Marija Petrovic on Future Energy Systems, Interdisciplinary Research, and DiversityMarija Petrovic discusses her role as Assistant Director of the Future Energy Systems program at the University of Alberta. Topics include managing over 75 interdisciplinary research projects, promoting global partnerships, and integrating historical perspectives into energy discussions. She reflects on societal transitions toward post-carbon systems, the role of equity, diversity, and inclusion in academia, and the challenges of fostering collaboration across disciplines. She emphasizes the importance of engaging the broader community, building sustainable research models, and leveraging diverse expertise to address the global energy transition and climate change.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Naomi Krogman on Sustainability Education, Equity, and Collaborative ResearchNaomi Krogman discusses her work as an environmental sociologist and former Director of Sustainability Scholarship and Education at the University of Alberta. Topics include the creation of the Certificate in Sustainability, the Sustainability Scholars Program, and the development of an academic sustainability plan. She emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, embedding sustainability into curriculum and research, and fostering intercultural competency. She reflects on sustainability challenges like energy futures, food security, and biodiversity loss, advocating for systemic change in higher education. She also explores her research on sustainability for marginalized groups, emphasizing equity, inclusivity, and the sociological dimensions of sustainability.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Emergency Transition or Decolonization? Historical Contradictions of a Neocolonial Satellite StateSingle authored, critical-theoretical book chapter in press with Routledge, expected 2026.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies invites readers to join an invigorating conversation about the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.
Offering diverse perspectives and abundant empirical examples, this robust volume sheds new light on how complex ecological, economic, and political factors contour processes of conscious cultural change. The works gathered here center contributors’ experiences and observations of life in an era of profound uncertainty. Bringing together theoretically informed considerations, ethnographic examples, and viewpoints from active transition movement participants, this book is certain to catalyze rich discussions about transition’s myriad opportunities and significance for socioecological change research. Fifteen original chapters highlight distinctive circumstances of post-carbon transitions as they play out in diverse communities around the world. These contributions are framed by a foreword by Arturo Escobar, a comprehensive introductory overview by the editors, and a dialogical conclusion that captures contributing authors’ key reflections on Transition Studies as an emergent field of knowledge production.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies will inspire readers to contemplate how transition intersects with their own academic and/or activist interests and generate exciting new understandings of conscious cultural change in the twenty-first century.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-09-03 | | | Ecofeminists Degrowth FuturesMulti-authored, critical-theoretical book chapter published by Routledge.
This handbook takes stock of ‘degrowth’, a concept and movement, gaining increasing visibility in the 2020s. Contributors explain contexts for degrowth’s significance, elaborate its diverse history and detail its unique approaches, practices, challenges and potential futures. Part I sets the ecological, economic and political contexts framing degrowth’s evolution as a significant concept for societies facing the challenges of deepening socio-political inequities and ecological unsustainabilities.
Part II identifies themes characterising degrowth movements in a sample of distinctive countries, starting with its origins in France. Part III shows degrowth ‘concepts in action’, explaining in practical ways the meanings of terms such as ‘conviviality’, ‘degrowth doughnut’, ‘frugal abundance’, ‘commoning’ and ‘defashioning’. Part IV offers analyses and forward-looking imaginaries for degrowth from the perspectives of distinctive agents, agendas and theoretical frameworks. Contributors engage with ecofeminist futures, utopian thought and show how degrowth is necessary to address poverty.
Highly experienced and knowledgeable contributors from varied scholarly and practitioner fields address a range of strategic, activist, policy, and research questions in this handbook. Grounded in empirical cases they identify significant social and ecological challenges, relevant to students, researchers, activists, policy-makers and practitioners at various levels within the wide range of fields in which degrowth can be applied.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-06-25 | | | Molecular Media and the Question of Anti-Fascist Popular CultureConference panel: Research-Creation Producing Needed Knowledges for the Climate Emergency. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-05-18 | | | Energy Emergency Repair Kit (Fire Drill Version)Performance of the Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) at Petrocultures LA. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-05-17 | | | Commoning and Common-beingThis presentation interrogates North-centric theories of the commons (Ostrom 2015, Bollier and
Helfrich 2019, Kostakis and Bauwens 2014, Hardt and Negri 2009) from the perspective of the
longue durée of Indigenous and subaltern resistance against development dispossession and
environmental racism. Drawing on my research on oil sands development in Alberta, Canada and
smart city development in Kolkata, India, I argue against claims which position commons/commoning/common between the market and the state. I argue that such claims are
based on uncritical, liberal and Eurocentric conceptions of markets and states which fail to grasp
their historical inter-relations and which ignore their formation through multiple colonialisms
involving the construction and exhaustion of commodity frontiers and the enclosure (and
destruction) of subsistence commons. Bringing together the thought of Ranajit Guha, Maria Mies
and Veronica Bennholdt Thomsen and Massimo De Angelis (2017), I argue that commoning is best
understood as both the social metabolic possibility of a racial capitalist world-economy and the
contemporary inter-state system as well as an autonomous domain of subaltern politics (and selfgovernment) based on the metabolism of social reproduction. This argument is illustrated through reflections on the contradictions of renewable energy commoning in the context of the politics of energy system change.T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-10-22 | | | Emergency Transition or Decolonization?T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-11-22 | | | Energy Emergency Repair Kit as Speculative FutureJoin Dr. Kimberly Skye Richards and Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea for a fascinating conversation on how speculative futures can help build just, sustainable and healthy futures for the whole planet, and how we can start practicing it today. Speculative futures is an envisioning process and design approach that brings together arts, social sciences and humanities perspectives to address complex societal issues by inviting people to visualize new and potential futures. Increasingly, speculative futures is used to create solutions for the climate and biodiversity crises, as well as the entangled injustices and inequities faced by communities.
Dr. Mookerjea will discuss his current research on speculative media, including The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (EERK), a research-creation probe co-created with Jessie Beier, Joan Greer, Tsema Igharas, Sourayan Mookerjea and Tegan Moore for SEF’s FluxKit for Energy Transition. EERK explores the ecological, cultural and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. It combines image, text and sound to play on the concept of a repair manual — a staple genre of self-help and self-making — while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers. T04-P01 University of Alberta | Activity | 2025-02-12 | | | We Were in It: Stories about Energy TransitionBringing together academics, scientists, creative writers, visual artists, lawyers, and policy makers, We Were In It is a collaborative effort to attack the problem of climate crisis from very different backgrounds and perspectives, through fiction. The fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity allows the strengths of many forms of writing to address the unfolding crisis of our modern petrocultures. Relying on the brevity of flash fiction to reflect the ticking clock of the climate crisis, the stories contained in this collection are slick as oil but against oil. They are a speculation about the future, taking notes from the present and the past as a portal to a better world.
T04-P01 University of Alberta, Memorial University | Publication | 2025-03-31 | Wilson, S., Moore, L., Mookerjea, S., "Ruth Beer ", "Caitlin Fisher ", "Satoshi Ikeda ", "Soheila Esfahani ", "Evan Davies ", "Luke Johnson ", Natalie Loveless, "Kurtis McAdam ", Lewandowski, K., "Janice Makokis ", "Patrick Mahon ", "Scott Smallwood " | | Thirty-seven years, her neighbour’s versionShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | PEI III, Leviathan OdysseyShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Blot Plot Neon ToxicShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Hands of an AngelShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Snakes and LaddersShort story in the fiction book We Were In It: Stories About Energy Transition.
T04-P01 University of Alberta | Publication | 2025-03-31 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Nathalie Brunet on Leadership, Indigenous Relationships, and Environmental Justice (English)Nathalie Brunet discusses her participation in the Leader de demain, au féminin! program, focusing on Indigenous relationships, environmental justice, and sustainable resource use. She reflects on the complexity of balancing natural resource preservation with global equity and emphasizes the importance of moderation and systemic change. She shares insights on women’s leadership, highlighting cooperative and empathetic approaches as key advantages in activism and community-building. She also reflects on the value of francophone and women-centered spaces for fostering comfort and collaboration. Lastly, she advocates for shared responsibility in sustainability across all generations, emphasizing the need for immediate action and habit changes.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Nima Gerami Seresht on Decision Support Systems, Renewable Energy, and Artificial IntelligenceNima Gerami Seresht discusses his role as a postdoctoral fellow with the Future Energy Systems project, focusing on decision support systems for optimizing renewable energy infrastructure, specifically wind and solar farms. Topics include the integration of artificial intelligence techniques such as fuzzy logic, multi-objective optimization for balancing cost, quality, time, and safety, and modeling human decision-making processes into computational systems. He reflects on the interdisciplinary nature of his work, collaboration across engineering disciplines, challenges in incorporating context-specific factors, and translating qualitative human judgments into quantitative data. He also explores applications of these systems for improving sustainability and addressing complex real-world energy challenges.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Pedram Mousavi on Intelligent Sensors, Energy Harvesting, and Sustainable TechnologiesPedram Mousavi discusses his research on intelligent sensors and communication systems, focusing on energy harvesting, zero-power sensors, and wireless power transfer. Topics include the use of ambient energy for powering sensors, environmentally friendly sensor designs, and low-maintenance communication technologies for applications like pollution monitoring, industrial safety, and smart homes. He emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering entrepreneurship, and commercializing research to benefit society. He also explores integrating innovative technologies in the oil and gas sector to improve efficiency and diversification into other industries such as transportation and housing.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Pierre Mertiny on Flywheel Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, and Interdisciplinary CollaborationPierre Mertiny discusses his research on flywheel energy storage systems as a sustainable alternative for short-term electricity storage. Topics include the material science behind flywheel technology, its advantages over conventional batteries, and its potential applications in renewable energy systems and public transit. He reflects on interdisciplinary collaboration within the Future Energy Systems initiative, the challenges of energy transitions, and the importance of balancing renewable and fossil fuel technologies. He also emphasizes public education, the role of arts and media in energy communication, and fostering collaboration between engineers, policymakers, and social scientists to advance sustainable energy solutions.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Rae-Anne Wadey on Solar Energy, Energy Transition, and Public PerceptionsRae-Anne Wadey discusses her journey from studying in the Alternative Energy program at NAIT to working as a journeyman electrician and solar energy system designer at Generate Energy. Topics include her passion for solar energy, the evolution of grid-tied versus off-grid solar systems, her capstone project on renewable energy solutions for urban developments, and the potential of policies to phase out coal and increase renewable energy adoption in Alberta. She reflects on cultural tensions surrounding renewable energy, the challenges of energy storage, and the importance of balancing renewables with natural gas for a sustainable energy transition. She also shares insights from her ongoing studies in a Bachelor of Technology program, focusing on advocacy for renewable energy.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Reza Khalkhali on Solvent Extraction, Renewable Energy, and Environmental ImpactReza Khalkhali discusses his research as a master's student in chemical engineering, focusing on solvent extraction methods for bitumen recovery. Topics include addressing the environmental challenges of conventional water-based extraction methods, optimizing solvent recovery to minimize environmental impact, and the potential for solvent-based techniques to reduce tailings and water usage. He reflects on the future of energy, highlighting the importance of renewable sources like solar energy and the continuing role of fossil fuels in energy markets. He also shares his perspectives on interdisciplinary collaboration, the motivation to tackle environmental issues, and the need for sustainable solutions to energy challenges.T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Sheena Wilson on Petro-feminism, Energy Transitions, and Feminist FuturesSheena Wilson discusses her extensive work on the intersections of feminism, energy systems, and societal change, rooted in her roles as co-director of the Petrocultures Research Group and lead researcher in projects like Feminist Energy Futures. She elaborates on the concept of petro-feminism, examining how oil, automobility, and energy systems shape gender roles, equity, and cultural norms. She reflects on the historical impacts of fossil fuels on women’s labor and mobility and critiques how energy policies perpetuate systemic inequalities, including colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist structures. She explores the transformative potential of feminist, decolonial, and anti-capitalist perspectives in addressing energy justice, advocating for more inclusive and equitable approaches to energy transitions. She emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary and creative methodologies, such as those in Speculative Energy Futures and iDoc, which engage artists, scholars, and policymakers to reimagine sustainable futures. She also discusses the cultural shifts necessary for meaningful energy transformation, emphasizing the value of feminist and Indigenous knowledges in designing more equitable societies and systems. Finally, she highlights the challenges and opportunities in building collaborative, imaginative frameworks for large-scale systemic change.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Sourayan Mookerjea on Feminist Energy Futures, Interdisciplinarity, and the CommonsSourayan Mookerjea discusses his work as co-principal investigator of the Feminist Energy Futures project and director of the Intermedia Research Studio. Topics include integrating feminist and decolonial theories into energy transitions, the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in addressing complex energy and environmental crises, and leveraging methodologies like the Fogo Process to foster communication across disciplines. He reflects on projects such as Speculative Energy Futures, which experiments with bringing together scientists, activists, policymakers, and artists to create innovative research frameworks. He also delves into the concept of the commons, contrasting capitalist wealth with commonwealth, and explores the implications for sustainability and equity. He shares insights into feminist leadership, the political nature of the project, and the challenges of navigating systemic inequalities while fostering inclusive and cooperative academic and social spaces.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Stefan Scherer on Future Energy Systems, Interdisciplinarity, and Energy TransitionStefan Scherer discusses his role as the Executive Director of Future Energy Systems, emphasizing its mission to address energy challenges through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Topics include the development of energy systems that integrate renewables with conventional sources, the importance of partnerships with institutions in Germany, China, and other countries, and the systematic approach to energy as an interconnected system. He reflects on the impact of funding programs like CFREF, the need for collaboration between the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary, and the critical role of interdisciplinary research in addressing energy and climate challenges. He also highlights the program's focus on training highly qualified personnel to shape the future of energy systems, the significance of fostering trust and shared vocabulary among disciplines, and the challenges of aligning research cycles with long-term goals for societal impact. He emphasizes the importance of producing graduates who are equipped to contribute to energy transitions and to address pressing environmental and societal issues.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Stephanie Ripley on Solar Energy, Public Education, and Policy ShiftsStephanie Ripley discusses her journey as a first-year student in the Alternative Energy Technology Program at NAIT and her transition from a decade-long career in theatre to pursuing a passion for environmental sustainability. Topics include the environmental challenges of the theatre industry, the decision to pivot to alternative energy, and her interest in energy auditing and project management. She highlights Alberta’s potential for solar energy, dispelling myths about its inefficacy in snowy climates, and emphasizes the importance of public education to counter misinformation about renewables. She reflects on recent policy shifts, such as carbon taxes and solar subsidies, and their role in fostering change. She also explores the need for a balanced approach to energy transitions that addresses both environmental goals and economic realities, expressing optimism about the growing momentum of alternative energy initiatives.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Troy Stuart on Land Management, Resource Consultation, and Youth EmpowermentTroy Stuart discusses his role as Land Manager for Bigstone Cree Nation, focusing on land management, resource consultation, and environmental stewardship. Topics include his responsibilities in overseeing residential, commercial, and agricultural land use, water and environmental monitoring, and managing consultations with oil, gas, and forestry companies. He highlights challenges such as capacity limitations, ineffective consultation processes with Alberta’s government, and the lack of engagement among youth in land management roles. He reflects on the power imbalance between First Nations and government entities, emphasizing the need for shared land management and sustainable development. He shares concerns about the social, economic, and environmental impacts of resource extraction, including the depletion of aquifers and the loss of traditional lands. He stresses the importance of fostering youth leadership to realize the community's potential and preserve cultural practices, such as hunting and fishing. His hopes for the future center on empowering Bigstone Cree Nation to protect their land, resources, and heritage for future generations.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Yunwei (Ryan) Li on Smart Grids, Renewable Energy, and InterdisciplinarityYunwei (Ryan) Li discusses his research as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a focus on smart grid development and renewable energy integration within the Future Energy Systems program. Topics include the transition from traditional grids to smart grids, incorporating decentralized energy sources such as rooftop photovoltaics and small wind systems. He elaborates on the role of energy storage in stabilizing renewable energy supply and the use of hybrid AC/DC grids to reduce energy conversion losses. He also reflects on interdisciplinary collaboration in addressing complex energy challenges, integrating data-driven approaches for grid management, and ensuring system efficiency. He discusses Alberta’s unique energy landscape, including deregulated power markets and local renewable energy policies, as well as the global potential of innovations in energy technologies. Additionally, He emphasizes the importance of creating sustainable, flexible, and resilient energy systems to meet growing demands and support climate goals.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Anne Naeth on Future Energy Systems, Community Engagement, and Interdisciplinary ResearchAnne Naeth discusses her role as Director of Future Energy Systems and the Energy Systems Signature Area at the University of Alberta. Topics include the evolution of Future Energy Systems from foundational research to addressing gaps in energy transitions, such as community engagement and technology adoption in rural and northern areas. She emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, professional development for graduate students, and leveraging international partnerships. She reflects on defining energy broadly, encompassing production, transport, and societal impacts, and highlights efforts to align equity, diversity, and inclusion with energy research. She advocates for a balanced allocation of funding between technological advancements and community-based research, emphasizing inclusivity and addressing barriers like affordability and public perception. She envisions a future with smoother energy transitions, integrated renewable systems, and enhanced public engagement to support post-carbon societies while maintaining environmental stewardship and fostering a sense of shared responsibility.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Anne Naeth on Land/Water Reclamation, Sustainability, and Interdisciplinary CollaborationAnne Naeth discusses her role as a professor at the University of Alberta and her involvement with the Future Energy Systems (FES) program, focusing on resilient reclaimed land and water systems. Topics include the processes of land and water reclamation, which involve rebuilding ecosystems from the ground up by restoring soil, vegetation, and hydrological systems. She highlights the importance of incorporating social and cultural perspectives, such as understanding the needs of Indigenous communities and addressing public concerns through social license. She reflects on sustainability in reclamation, emphasizing ecological, cultural, social, and financial dimensions. She explores novel ecosystems, the potential for carbon sequestration, and the development of habitats for wildlife in national parks. Additionally, She discusses the regulatory and collaborative processes required for advancing reclamation practices, advocating for integrating government, industry, and academic input into decision-making. She underscores the need for interdisciplinary approaches, bringing together engineering, social sciences, and the humanities to tackle complex environmental challenges and create innovative solutions.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Ariel Kroon on Feminist Energy Futures, Historical Narratives, and Community ResilienceAriel Kroon discusses her role as a graduate research assistant with the Feminist Energy Futures project. Topics include her work documenting feminist activists' contributions to energy systems, exploring Canadian science fiction from 1948-1989, particularly post-apocalyptic narratives, and analyzing their environmental and community themes. She highlights the value of imagining futures that prioritize renewable energy, reduced energy use, and stronger community connections. She reflects on the importance of archiving and organizing knowledge to make it accessible and usable, contributing to the project's goals of knowledge democracy. She emphasizes the role of historical narratives in informing present and future energy systems, focusing on the interplay between imagination and action. Additionally, she underscores the value of fostering networks and collaboration among feminist scholars and activists across Canada to address energy transitions and systemic inequalities through innovative, community-centered approaches.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Bob Summers on Sustainability, Urban Planning, and Social ChangeBob Summers discusses his work as the Director of the Sustainability Council and Associate Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Alberta. Topics include the creation and goals of the Sustainability Council, its role in fostering sustainability education and research, and its integration with campus and community initiatives. He highlights efforts like the Certificate in Sustainability and Sustainability Scholars Program to empower students as advocates for change. He reflects on the challenges of transitioning to sustainable urban planning, addressing issues like urban sprawl, environmental degradation, and economic inefficiencies. He shares insights into interdisciplinary collaboration to overcome institutional barriers and emphasizes the importance of embedding sustainability in education across all disciplines. Additional discussions cover the interconnection of environmental, social, cultural, and economic sustainability, the role of supportive communities in reducing societal burdens, and the need for urgent action to address climate change. He envisions a future where all graduates are equipped with knowledge to become agents of change, fostering a sustainable and equitable society.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Kenneth Tam on Energy Storytelling, Interdisciplinarity, and DecentralizationKenneth Tam discusses his role as Communications Associate with the Future Energy Systems (FES) team at the University of Alberta, focusing on storytelling to bridge academia, government, and public audiences. Topics include the importance of communicating research outcomes to government stakeholders, emphasizing the impact of public funding on student training and societal benefits. He highlights the role of FES in preparing students for future challenges, creating international partnerships, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. He reflects on the decentralization of energy systems, envisioning a diverse future of renewable energy sources and storage technologies. He discusses the societal and cultural implications of energy transitions, the role of system-wide analysis in understanding complex interactions, and the challenges of policy-making in research funding. He emphasizes the importance of connecting the arts, humanities, and sciences to address societal issues collaboratively and effectively. He also details his efforts to simplify technical research into accessible narratives that demonstrate the value of research investments and their broader societal impacts.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2025-05-08 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Jasper Woodard on Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, and Interdisciplinary CollaborationJasper Woodard discusses his early-stage graduate research in the Buriak group, with a particular interest in battery technology within the Future Energy Systems (FES) program. Topics include the importance of energy storage solutions for integrating renewable energy sources like solar and wind into the grid, exploring alternatives such as sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries, and the challenges of developing cost-effective, abundant, and efficient storage systems. He reflects on the future of energy, predicting significant advances in renewable energy adoption and energy storage by 2050, while highlighting the risks of energy scarcity and inequality. He emphasizes the need for proactive investment in renewable energy and education for women and girls to address population growth and social inequities. Additionally, he shares concerns about the ethical development of artificial intelligence and the importance of aligning technological advancements with societal goals. He values interdisciplinary collaboration and sees potential in leveraging social sciences and psychology to understand the broader impacts of energy technologies on society.T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Brandon Sandmaier on Career Change, Solar Energy, and Business StartupsBrandon Sandmaier discusses his career transition from heavy equipment repair to renewable energy, his decision to join the NAIT program, founding Generate Energy, the development and diversification of his business model, the challenges and opportunities in the solar and renewable energy industries, micro-hydro power systems, and the environmental considerations in renewable energy installations.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Charles Stubblefield on Energy Transition, Social Systems, and Community EngagementCharles Stubblefield discusses his role in the Just Powers project, his research on energy transition and its sociological implications, critiques of current technological solutions and their colonial assumptions, the intersection of energy production and social systems, the challenges in fostering public engagement and reflexivity, and his initiatives in creating inclusive, critical communities.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2025-05-11 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Charles Stubblefield on Feminist Energy Futures, Systemic Change, and ReflexivityCharles Stubblefield discusses his role in the Feminist Energy Futures project, including analyzing power structures and rationalities within energy systems, critiquing techno-determinism and its limitations, exploring how technologies interact with existing economic and social systems, advocating for a shift towards substantive rationality grounded in empathy and egalitarianism, and emphasizing the importance of reflexivity to challenge entrenched systems and foster transformative change.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Cindy Gaudet on Métis Women's Wellness, Land-Based Learning, and ReconciliationCindy Gaudet discusses her research on Métis women's wellness and resilience practices, the importance of land-based learning in reviving traditional Métis teachings, the role of visiting as a cultural and knowledge-sharing practice, sustainability principles tied to relational accountability, grassroots efforts in community and academic spaces, and the critical need to reevaluate and redefine reconciliation within Indigenous and institutional frameworks.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Linda Gisenya on Women’s Leadership, Activism, and Climate ChangeLinda Gisenya discusses her role in the "Leader de demain, au féminin!" project, her work with the Feminist Energy Futures initiative, the value of fostering leadership and activism among francophone women in Alberta, her evolving understanding of women’s issues and diverse perspectives, the importance of community networks for combating isolation, the intersection of climate change and social justice, and the need for resilience and tools to drive social change within local and global frameworks.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Danika Jorgensen-Skakum on Death Positivity, Energy Transition, and Feminist EthicsDanika Jorgensen-Skakum discusses her master's thesis on the death positivity movement and its relevance to the Anthropocene, the cultural and environmental implications of human composting, her work with the Just Powers project, the intersections of energy transition and climate justice, the role of feminist ethics in imagining equitable futures, the importance of critical yet generous analysis, and the challenges of addressing gender dynamics and power structures in climate crisis conversations.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2025-05-11 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Devereaux (Dev) Jennings on Land Reclamation, Energy Transition, and Sustainability EducationDevereaux (Dev) Jennings discusses his work with Future Energy Systems, focusing on resilient land and water systems and the integration of behavioral and scientific success indicators. He explores challenges in energy transition, including economic and social implications, financing renewable energy through public-private models, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. He also addresses gender issues in sustainability, the importance of weaving sustainability into mainstream education, and the untapped potential of student engagement in addressing environmental challenges.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Eva Bogdan on Role-Playing Games, Energy Transition, and FeminismEva Bogdan discusses her involvement in the Feminist Energy Futures project, focusing on developing an interactive role-playing game to promote energy and social sustainability. She shares her interdisciplinary background in environmental resource management, sociology, and public administration, which informs her approach to inclusive stakeholder engagement. She reflects on global models like the Nordic countries and Cuba for equitable energy systems, the potential of games for active and social learning, and her goal to contribute to shifting dialogue toward a more equitable and environmentally friendly future.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Ève Robidoux-Descary on Leadership, Environmental Justice, and Feminist Solidarity (English)Ève Robidoux-Descary discusses her coordination of the francophone leadership program Leader de demain, au féminin! in collaboration with Just Powers and Next Up. She reflects on her growth in leadership skills, the interconnectedness of environmental, social, and gender justice, and the unique dynamics of all-women spaces in fostering feminist dialogue. She emphasizes the importance of addressing personal and collective well-being in activism, the role of francophone communities in advancing environmental justice, and the value of delivering programs in French to empower bilingual leaders and bridge linguistic divides in social justice movements.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Ipek Oskay on Activism, Commons, and Feminist Energy FuturesIpek Oskay discusses her role as a research assistant for the Feminist Energy Futures project, drawing on her activist experiences, including her work on the Sesol sound mapping project in Istanbul. She explores the intersections of community-building, collective action, and political agency, emphasizing self-initiation over traditional leadership. She reflects on lessons from the Gezi Park uprising, the importance of rethinking commons and sustainability, and the transformative potential of grassroots efforts in creating alternative economies. She highlights her vision for collective living, renewable energy integration, and ethical community practices rooted in diversity and solidarity.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Irina Grecu on Community Organizing, Sustainability, and ResilienceIrina Grecu discusses her work with Transition NDG, a community-driven initiative in Montreal. Topics include her involvement in community gardening, the Incredible Edibles program, workshops on kombucha making, and knitting circles. She reflects on her experience running for city council with Projet Montréal, emphasizing the importance of partnerships and grassroots engagement. She shares insights on fostering belonging and resilience in diverse communities, promoting sustainable practices like composting and food sharing, and advocating for urban greening, bike safety, and social housing in Montreal.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Jan Poehls on Machine Learning, Renewable Energy, and Materials ScienceJan Poehls discusses his research on applying machine learning to discover materials for renewable energy technologies. He reflects on the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy, the importance of utilizing diverse energy sources like solar, wind, and hydro, and the potential of thermoelectric materials to capture wasted heat energy. He emphasizes the need for computational studies to optimize materials development, highlights regional differences in energy strategies, and critiques political and infrastructural barriers to renewable energy adoption. He also discusses the role of incentives and systemic change in addressing global climate challenges.
T04-P03 University of Alberta | Activity | 2024-06-30 | | | Just Powers iDoc: Jane Barr on Community Gardening, Nonviolent Communication, and ResilienceJane Barr discusses her role as Vice President of Transition NDG, a solidarity cooperative focused on local sustainability and community building. Topics include the Incredible Edibles program, permaculture gardening, and the environmental and social benefits of urban green spaces. She also highlights her involvement in nonviolent communication workshops, the knitting circle as a skill-sharing initiative, and collaborative projects like the salted herb workshop. She reflects on her professional background in environmental consulting, the intersection of local and global sustainability efforts, and the importance of fostering resilience and community engagement through shared skills and resources.
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