valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Matt Seybold's piece on Chicago School (Economics) is essential reading for understanding our present day political-economy. 111
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory is now, at long last, fully out in the world! Check it out here - muse.jhu.edu/encyclopedia...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory 111
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Very much looking forward to presenting at The University of Edinburgh this Friday! I'm excited to present new research on the film Mural (1957), about the painting of York Wilson's grandiose mural at the Imperial Oil Headquarters in Toronto. All details here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...blogs.ed.ac.uk25 Sept: Valerie Uher (Toronto): ‘”This Symbol of Man Rearranging Molecule Clusters”: York Wilson’s The Story of Oil and the Labour of Petro-Culture’ – EEHN 100
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCaleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Really appreciated @valerieuher.bsky.social’s talk at Petrocultures 2026. She helped me see the rhetorical and ideological continuities in Mark Carney’s now famous Davos speech, despite his theme of rupture. 121
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialDeindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 06/05/2026🎨The AIR Program is welcoming new applications for 2026-2027! AIR will fund projects that address the relationships between industrial heritage sites and the working-class areas that often adjoin them. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 Read the full call for applications on our website:deindustrialization.orgArtists in Residence – Deindustrialization 131
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026so so so much exciting stuff at Mayworks this year! mayworks.ca/2026-festival/mayworks.caMayworks Festival 2026The 2026 Mayworks Festival includes live theatre, film, animation, installation, music, and pastry making 000
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialFred Burrill @fburrill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026As the father of a toddler, and a human who cares about children in general: there is no world in which a horror like this can be tolerated or justified. 0135
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"It is highly likely that members of Canadian military, on exchange with the US, were involved in planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran. It is long-standing policy to have Canadian service members participate in exchanges with US Central Command." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caMembers of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC NewsA retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A... 57955
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026good morning new followers here are some resources for humanities classrooms against-a-i.comagainst-a-i.comAGAINST AI - 15015
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialSigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Hundreds of people are walking towards the federal paramilitary who *just murdered a guy this morning* with their hands raised. The courage of people who live here is stunning. 2368112
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.social🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 20/01/2026For those unaware, Canada has always been an imperialist country.fernwoodpublishing.caCanada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial ImaginationAn accessible and empirically rich introduction to Canada’s engagements in the world since confederation, this introductory textbook charts a unique path by locating Canada’s colonial foundations at t... 04518
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.social🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 03/01/2026"United States involvement in regime change in Latin America"en.wikipedia.orgUnited States involvement in regime change in Latin America - Wikipedia 0112
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialThe Breach @breachmedia.ca · 05/12/2025Right-wing premiers across Canada are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, public sector workers, and people who use drugs with laws that violate their rights. @desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.breachmedia.caA Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The BreachRight-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them 15225
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 26/11/2025reading this makes me ache to teach close reading again. 161
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialThea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Essential essay by @iliasalami.bsky.social on new configurations of state ownership + state investment funds being deployed in the race for military, AI, and energy supply chain dominance. The trend rhymes with earlier eras of Great Power conflict but updated for a networked global economy. 2299
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialMSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Check out our "New Voices in Environmental Modernisms" Roundtable CFP (for MSA 2026, Loughborough): share widely with emerging and contingent modernist scholars, makers, and activists please! (DL 2/1/26): sites.google.com/risd.edu/mod... 122
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialThe Energy Mix @theenergymix.com · 24/11/2025#COP30 ends with an “empty deal,” dropping any fossil fuel phaseout despite backing from 80+ countries. Colombia objected after pushback from petrostates. Some wins on adaptation, forests & just transition, but no roadmap for the urgent fossil phaseout the science demands.theenergymix.comBREAKING: ‘Empty Deal’ at COP30 as Petrostates Block Progress on Fossil Fuel PhaseoutA dramatic, last-minute intervention by Colombia at the closing session of the COP30 climate summit Saturday afternoon failed to derail what one veteran negotiator called an “empty deal” on countries’... 022
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025the most anticipated book of 2026: bravo @ueberdruss.bsky.social !! www.versobooks.com/products/334...versobooks.comWorking NatureWorking Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “Energy” is not a thing nor an ability, but a social relation to nature fo... 13713
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialAmy Janzwood @amyjanzwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I awoke to the headline this morning that Ottawa and Alberta are reportedly “close” to a deal that includes a new heavy oil pipeline to the northwest coast of BC… It feels timely to share that my book is out now with UBC Press, available open access www.ubcpress.ca/mega-pipelin...ubcpress.caMega Pipelines, Mega ResistanceMega Pipelines, Mega Resistance - Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure; Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pip... 095
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialRobarts Centre for Canadian Studies @robartscentre.bsky.social · 19/11/2025📢 Upcoming Event! 💻 A "What is Happening in Canada?" seminar: On Disability Arts & Culture with Dr. Emilia Nielsen (Associate Professor Health & Society, York University) 9 December 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST 🔗 Register here: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @csnrec.bsky.social 033
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialJason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 18/11/2025A repost as we begin a unit on workers' inquiry in my work class www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/02/if-n...unemployednegativity.comUndercover Worker: Workers Inquiry after the End of the Working Class 042
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCaleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.org“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core“Energy Humanities and American History” 73212
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialThe Tyee @thetyee.ca · 14/11/2025While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNGthetyee.caKsi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The TyeeThe prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser. 69451
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.social🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Remember our fallen soldiers... The Everett Massacre - Nov.5, 1916 The hanging of the Haymarket Martyrs - Nov.11, 1887 The Centralia Tragedy - Nov.11, 1919 The hanging of Louis Riel - Nov.16, 1885 The execution by firing squad of Joe Hill - Nov.19, 1915 The Battleford hangings - Nov.27, 1885 13014
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis. 19888318
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialTyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Sharing my first published article from my PhD research! It draws from my ethnographic experiences at ‘future of work’ conferences and completing online courses on the subject, particularly how the discourses I observed shape a narrow vision of the ‘ideal worker.’ doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...doi.orgRedirecting 072
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025new special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly FILMING CAPITAL read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...read.dukeupress.eduVolume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press 0205
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Listen to "The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRk... Read "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'" by @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f... #envhist #greatlakes #waterhistoryyoutube.comThe Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years LaterYouTube video by New York Times Podcasts 132
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialcms @camillemarys.bsky.social · 27/10/2025📖 I'm excited to convene a virtual reading group on #EnergyHeritage with @energy-ethics.bsky.social! Engaging w/ scholarship, fiction & artistic projects, we'll meet monthly from Nov-April for discussion and creative responses. Details + registration: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...energyethics.st-andrews.ac.ukCEE Reading Group | Energy Ethics 0146
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCanada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 04/11/2025Tuesday's federal budget proposes to weaken the truthfulness standard companies must meet to back environmental claims and prevent third-parties greenwashing complaints to the Competition Bureau.nationalobserver.comCarney scraps anti-greenwashing law, even as research shows Canadians want fewer climate lies onlineMost Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr... 44423
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialHadrian @hadrianmk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way. My take in @nationalobserver.com: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...nationalobserver.comOil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budgetThe budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way. 011
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 04/11/2025.@policyalternatives.ca senior economist David MacDonald predicts specific cuts will be made via “stealth” over the coming months. He does not expect them to be clearly laid out on Tuesday. #budget2025 #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...theglobeandmail.comPublic service braces for billions in spending cuts ahead of Tuesday’s budgetThe finance minister has hinted at shrinking the size of the public service, a move union leaders say could put up to 70,000 jobs at risk 096
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialCCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 04/11/2025Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...nationalobserver.comOil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budgetThe budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way. 13518
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025This government's signal legacy in higher education is going to be "we torched whatever we could right across the country because we couldn't figure out how to control the southern Ontario housing market". Ford can't/won't build houses? Better knife some more rural colleges in NB or BC. 76428
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialOntario Book Publishers Organization @obpoofficial.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Poet and scholar Melanie Dennis Unrau excavates history and language in GOOSE (@pressassembly.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the author today! #AmReading #Poetry #CanLit #PoetryinPerspective open-book.ca/News/Melanie...open-book.caMelanie Dennis Unrau Excavates History and Language in the Poetics of GOOSEIn the exciting new collection, Goose, poet and researcher Melanie Dennis Unrau reimagines the language of industry as poetry, unearthing new meanings ... 032
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 03/11/2025everyone including me is feeling the post blue jays emptiness. too bad I don't understand any other sports, or not to the same degree. 110
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialWest End Phoenix @westendphoenix.bsky.social · 18/10/2025All branches of the Toronto Public Library are now going to be open Sundays, perfect for not just checking out books but also for discovering new music. WEP met the man in charge of stocking their massive cd collection. www.westendphoenix.com/stories/the-...westendphoenix.comThe Dewey Decibel System — West End PhoenixLast year, music lovers checked out almost half a million CDs tucked away in Toronto Public Library branches. Meet a few committed, long-time stack hunters and the man in charge of growing the collect... 0254
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialNiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 15/10/2025The @greenhouseuis.net - Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, at the University of Stavanger, 1-5 Dec 2025 The course is open to applicants from both within and outside of Norway. niche-canada.org/2025/10/15/a...niche-canada.orgApply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities - University of StavangerThe Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities invites applicants to attend a week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities, held at the University of Stavanger from 1-5 December 2025. 11610
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This post is a bit late on my part, but every day is labour day, right? Glad this article is now open access. Please do give it and Billy Johnson's a read! 000
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialScott W. Stern @scottwstern.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Check out my latest in @theatlantic.com, wherein I review EXTRACTION (@wwnorton.com), a dazzling new book by @triofrancos.bsky.social. I argue that it is "by far the most clear-eyed of mining’s many recent chronicles." www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...theatlantic.comThe Costs of the Green TransitionA new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate crisis. 1114
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialDominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We welcome Sean Field of @energy-ethics.bsky.social to talk about his new book Carbon Capital on the moral landscape of oil investing. A most provocative read! tinyurl.com/bdf2n82s @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.socialtinyurl.comCultures of Energy: 239 - Carbon Capital (feat. Sean Field)There be tales of two Sean Fields on this week’s podcast. Happily, we are only welcoming (8:56) the smart and accomplished to the podcast to talk about his pathbreaking new ethnography of oil and fin... 0124
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Professor Florence Ashley was placed on (non-disciplinary) leave by the University of Alberta because of CK social media posts. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom in Canada. CAUT should be examining censuring UA for this violation. cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09... 46940
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 29/09/2025interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine." bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob... thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip! #bchist #cdnhist #envhist 64220
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2025The Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, took place in South Dakota in 1890.bit.lyNative Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medalsThe Battle of Wounded Knee, also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre, took place in South Dakota in 1890. 725978
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.social🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/09/2025"The California genocide was a series of genocidal massacres of the indigenous peoples of California by United States governments, soldiers and settlers during the 19th century. It began following the American conquest of California in the Mexican–American War..."en.wikipedia.orgCalifornia genocide - Wikipedia 182
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/09/2025Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...heated.worldFossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movementAn investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding. 6127721294
valerieuher.bsky.social @valerieuher.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Excited to receive a copy of the book Power Shift, edited by @imreszeman.bsky.social and Jennifer Wenzel, with a text by me on "Class." I wrote it in 2020-2021, in the middle of signing union cards, covid, and the weird lull in emissions. I feel like a lot of that is in the chapter. Full info below! 131
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Sept. 14th! Join Kyo Maclear and Vinh Nguyen to contemplate the limits of the memoir genre and explore strategies for working through, around, and against its conventions. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/mem...workshops4gaza.comMemoir and the Missing — Workshops 4 GazaStep 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40) Step 2: Register for “Memoir and the Missing” here This workshop considers unavailable archives and missing evidence in life w... 034
Reposted by @valerieuher.bsky.socialImre Szeman @imreszeman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available! citedpodcast.com/2025/09/02/s...citedpodcast.comIntroducing Green Dreams (Season Trailer) - Cited PodcastIntroducing our new season, Green Dreams. Starting September 9, 2025, with weekly episodes through October. 054