How must academia change in light of the climate and other crises? In this podcast episode, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Darin Barney, Walter Gordon, and Bob Johnson confront the exclusionary nature of academia's knowledge production system. Together, they explore the potential of the energy humanities to be a forum and site where experts in energy transition embrace the goal of producing a more oppositional and radically inclusion version of the university.
How is academia implicated in the climate crisis and the politics of energy transition? In this podcast episode, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Rhys Williams, Stacey Balkan, and Tommy Davis talk about the ways in which the "revolutionary forms of infrastructure" needed to forestall climate collapse hinges on certain forms of aesthetic education and moving beyond imagination to doing the political work necessary to bring them into being. To do these things, however, means confronting the now material reality of petrocultural ideology.
The current fossil-fuel energy regime entails certain kinds of human-land relationships. In this podcast episode, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Emily Eaton, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Penelope Plaza, Scott Stoneman, and host Mark Simpson think through different approaches to the land that may help to break the spell of fossil capitalism. They discuss loving of land, attachments to particular forms of land use and their histories, and maintenance as a more just and sustainable paradigm for connecting to the land--and to others.
Effective climate action will require collective agency, but to this point, such agency is constrained by larger political structures. In this expansive and lively discussion, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Allan Stoekl, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Casey Williams, and Imre Szeman discuss the contours of those restrictive political structures and what will be required to build mass support for energy transition at multiple scales.
If we have all the ideas and technologies that we need to address climate change, what is missing? In this podcast episode, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Cara New Daggett, Swaralipi Nandi, and Jennifer Wenzel work through the hegemony of "heroic action", critically consider degrowth, and explore models of climate action that prioritize care and critical thought.
"Futuring" is a process of imagining and planning for possible futures. In this podcast episode, recorded as part of an After Oil 3 meeting in Banff, Alberta in October 2022, Graeme Macdonald, Terra Schwerin Rowe, and Hiroki Shin explore futuring as a potential method to evade the "domino effective" narrative of climate catastrophe. Much of their conversation is about museums as futuring spaces and whether museums can move past their entanglements with the technological sublime of fossil-fueled industrialism.
A video essay by Tanner Mirrlees, based on his EH feature essay "The Carbon Convoy." This video argues that the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" communicated an “energy politics”, and one materially intertwined with and biased to the infrastructures and industries, petro-populist parties and politicians, and digital media-cultures of “carbon capitalism.” The video probes how the convoy intersected with the interests of oil and gas industry elites, right-wing authoritarian politicians and influencers, and petro-cultural imaginaries that prop up an old way of life, exacerbate the planetary climate emergency, and block the transition to a sustainable energy future.
In their astonishing memoirs, published only weeks apart, Kazim Ali and Robert Boschman explore how their personal and family stories overlap with histories of violence, colonialism, indigenous dispossession, and energy development in Western Canada.
Rebecca Byrnes, Deputy Director at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, sits down with Imre Szeman to discuss why we should focus on fossil fuels if we want to understand where best to act on climate change.
Rebecca Byrnes, Deputy Director at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiatie, sits down with Imre Szeman to discuss why the transition away from fossil fuels must be just and equitable.
Rebecca Byrnes, Deputy Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, sits down with Imre Szeman to explain the initiative's fossil fuel registry proposal and why it matters.
Rebecca Byrnes, Deputy Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, sits down with Imre Szeman to discuss the challenges facing the initiative and the importance of collective action to shift policy.
Rebecca Byrnes, Deputy Director of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, sits down with Imre Szeman to discuss climate change, the initiative's anti-nuclear roots, and how a fossil fuel treaty could be a driver of international change.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, about the role of art and culture in creating a sustainable energy transition.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, about the Green Party's commitment to working with Canada's Indigenous people.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, about the Green Party's social vision and the opportunities that her election has created for new conversations about green politics.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, about the international green movement and how her experience in international affairs shapes her approach to party leadership.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, about the Green Party's message to Canada's oil-dependent provinces.
EH editors Imre Szeman and Caleb Wellum speak with Annamie Paul, leader of the Green Party of Canada, about Canada's international role in the fight against climate change.
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