Environmental Humanities Seminar with Jordan B. Kinder
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"Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North"
Speaker: Jordan B. Kinder, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow
Respondent: Abby Spinak
Jordan B. Kinder is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar from a resource town in what is now known as northern British Columbia, Canada. He studies the cultural politics of energy, infrastructure, media, and environment. His current book project, titled Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil in the Age of Social Media, examines the pro-oil movement in Canada’s use of social media to refigure Canadian oil as a socially, economically, and ecologically progressive force. He holds a PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Alberta and, before joining the Mahindra Humanities Center, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (2020-22). His work can be found in South Atlantic Quarterly, theCanadian Journal of Communication, Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (West Virginia UP), Socialism and Democracy, Mediations, and elsewhere. At the Mahindra Humanities Center, he will be completing work on a new project titled Between Foreclosure and Possibility: Competing Energy and Infrastructural Imaginaries in the Contemporary Canadian Mediascape. The project studies extractive and post-extractive energy and infrastructural imaginaries by focusing on a set of in-construction energy infrastructures in Canada’s northwest.
Abby Spinak is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She studies energy history, with a particular interest in the politics of utility ownership and the role of infrastructure in disseminating economic ideas.
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About the Series
The Mahindra Humanities Center presents an Environmental Humanities seminar series with our 2022-23 postdoctoral fellows.