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August 18, 2023

Energy Decolonization and Indigenous Resistance: Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

Shouhei Tanaka

In the second of a two-part series on Racial Capital by emerging researchers, Shouhei Tanaka (Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California) explores how Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan’s novel Solar Storms (1995) fictionalizes the James Bay Cree hydroelectric conflict and places it in the longer histories of North American settler colonialism. For Tanaka, energy modernity is a history of empire and the future of energy must necessarily be a future of decolonization.

May 16, 2023

Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat

Sarah Marie Wiebe

In this Author's Note, political scientist Sarah Marie Wiebe outlines the stories, concerns, and methods animating her new book, "Life Against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat."

August 2, 2022

Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

In this author's note on his new book, Pipeline Populism, geographer Kai Bosworth explores the challenges of forging the kinds of broad and effective political coalitions required to achieve a just and sustainable future.

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