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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., Loveless, N., 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 | | | 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 | | | 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., Loveless, N., 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., Loveless, N., 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., Loveless, N., 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., Loveless, N., "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., Loveless, N., "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 | Publication | 2022-04-23 | Simpson, M., Jessie Beier, "Joan Greer ", "Tsema Igharas ", Mookerjea, S., "tegan moore ", "lisa moore ", "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 ", Loveless, N., "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., Loveless, N., Kohleal, 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 ", Loveless, N., "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 | | | "Approved for Release"Contribution to Speculative Energy Futures volume.T04-P01, T04-P02 University of Alberta | Publication | 2023-05-04 | | | “Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening for Repair"Research-creation performative conference presentation.T04-P01, T04-P02 University of Alberta | Activity | 2023-05-02 | |
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