[acc-cca-l] Reminder: RISN Talk: Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media

[Sibo Chen]

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Dear Colleagues,

This is a kind reminder that Dr. Jordan B. Kinder's RISN talk is scheduled for tomorrow evening.

Regards
Sibo

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM Sibo Chen <sibo.chen at torontomu.ca<mailto:sibo.chen at torontomu.ca>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Racialized and Indigenous Scholars Network (RISN) at the Canadian Communication Association, I am excited to invite you to the first RISN talk of 2025. In this talk, Dr. Jordan B. Kinder (Wilfrid Laurier University) will present key arguments from his recently published book: Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media (University of Minnesota Press).

Please see below for the webinar details and the Zoom registration link. Feel free to share this email with your networks. We look forward to seeing you there.

Best Regards
Sibo Chen

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Webinar Time: Apr 23, 2025 06:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Zoom Registration Link: https://torontomu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TbZeB-OdRtCvbSc0lNNzBw

Webinar Description: In this talk, Jordan B. Kinder introduces his recently published book, Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media (University of Minnesota Press). Petroturfing tells the story of how the Canadian pro-oil movement took shape through social media and ignited what Kinder calls the oil culture wars—wars waged from positions founded on either dirty or ethical oil imaginaries. The book takes media produced and circulated on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter (now X), and YouTube as its objects of study to investigate how the Canadian pro-oil movement hopes to undermine resistance to the fossil fuel industry and delay energy transition by symbolically refining Canadian oil as a progressive and, indeed, decolonial force. Offering a closer look at the kinds of analysis the book develops in relation to the pro-oil movement’s environmental imagination, the talk highlights how the pro-oil movement culturally mitigates the impacts of extraction through aesthetic means and ends that reproduces settler colonial relations.

Bio: Jordan B. Kinder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University where he researches and teaches on the cultural politics of energy, media, infrastructure, and environment. From 2020 to 2023, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and McGill. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta.

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