# Jordan B. Kinder ![Jordan B Kinder](/sites/g/files/omnuum4936/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/mahindra/files/kindermhcbiophoto1.png?itok=jSXtYr1T) email 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*, the*Canadian 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. - ## Discipline [English](/disciplines/english) [Film & Media Studies](/discipline/media-studies) - ## Fellowship [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral) - ## Fellowship Year [2022 - 2023](/fellowship-year/2022-2023) - ## Role [Fellows](/role/fellow)