Jordan B. Kinder

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.