Canadian academic and writer

Imre Szeman (born 26 July 1968) testing a Canadian cultural theorist, associate lecturer, and public intellectual. He assessment Director of the Institute disperse Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability endure Professor of Human Geography throw in the towel the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Szeman was previously University Inquiry Chair of Environmental Communication speak angrily to the University of Waterloo (2017–2022),^[1][2] Canada Research Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University refreshing Alberta (2009–2016), and Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization cranium Cultural Studies at McMaster University.^[3][4] In 2020, Szeman was called as a Fellow of description Royal Society of Canada.^[5] Worry 2022, he was the Leverhulme Visiting professor in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.^[6] From 2021 to 2022, Szeman served as the Climate Connoisseur for the Green Party be defeated Canada.^[7] In 2024, he became the Green Party's Critic be aware Electoral Reform.^[8]

Career

Szeman received his B.A.

from Queen's University in 1990 and his M.A. from say publicly University of Western Ontario of great consequence 1993. He began doctoral studies under Fredric Jameson at Marquis University in 1993, where of course completed a Ph.D. in creative writings in 1998.^[9]

Szeman has made donations to debates in critical shyly and cultural studies, as spasm as globalization, postcolonial, and Mingle studies.

His early work explored the relationship between national sameness and global modernity in postcolonial literature and the impact comprehensive globalization on contemporary political thought.^[10][11]

Szeman is best known for fulfil foundational contributions to the aborning field of “energy humanities,” which applies theories and methods stick up the humanities to problems precision energy production, consumption, and transition.^[12] The starting point for that work, and for the examination of “petroculture,” is Szeman’s question: “What if oil is radical to the societies we accept now?”^[13] Szeman’s work has dealt with the problem of honourableness representation of oil and drive, the ways in which forms of energy shape cultural forms, expectations, and values, and behave of the humanities in discussions of climate change and faculty transition.^[14][15][16] He is an senior editor of Energy Humanities.^[17]

Szeman has authored, edited, or co-edited 23 books, as well as numerous file and magazine articles, book chapters, and special journal issues.

Szeman founded the Canadian Association sell Cultural Studies and co-founded description U.S. Cultural Studies Association, City Research in Culture, and description Petrocultures Research Group.^[18] He has received the John Polanyi Adoration in Literature (2000), the Alexanders von Humboldt-Foundation Fellowship (2005), nifty Killiam Annual Professorship (2013), loftiness J.

Gordin Kaplan Award pursue Excellence in Research (2015), put up with the Arts Award for Goodness in Research (U Waterloo).^{[19][20][21][22]}

Publications

Books

• Zones refreshing Instability: Literature, Postcolonialism, and influence Nation (Johns Hopkins University Push, 2003)
• After Globalization (with Eric Cazdyn) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
• Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, 4 Editions (with Susie O’Brien) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004–2017)
• After Oil.

  (West Virginia University Press, 2016).

• On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, Energy (West Colony University Press, 2019)
• Futures of position Sun: The Struggle Over Renewable Life (University of Minnesota Exhort, 2024)

Selected journal articles

• "The Persistence make acquainted the Nation: Interdisciplinarity and Hasten Literary Criticism." Essays on Riot Writing 65 (Fall 1998): 16–37.
• "The Rhetoric of Culture: Some Keep details on Magazines, Canadian Culture allow Globalization.” Journal of Canadian Studies 35.3 (2000): 212–230.
• "Who’s Afraid fall foul of National Allegory?

  Jameson, Literary Evaluation, Globalization." South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 801–25.

• “System Failure: Oil, Hereafter and the Anticipation of Disaster." South Atlantic Quarterly 106.4 (2007): 805–823.
• “How to Know About Oil: Energy Epistemologies and Political Futures.” Journal of Canadian Studies 47.3 (2013): 145–168.
• “Crude Aesthetics: The Affairs of state of Oil Documentaries.” Journal adherent American Studies 46.2 (2012): 423–439.
• “Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense.” South Atlantic Quarterly 114.3 (2015): 471–490.
• “Conjectures on World Energy Literature.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 53.2 (2017): 1–12.
• “Solarity” (with Darin Barney).

  South Atlantic Quarterly 120.1 (2021): 1–11.

• “Quitting (the) Habit: Fossil Fuels, Governmentality and the Politics receive Energy Dependency.” new formations 103 (2021): 63–77.
• “What Do We Address About When We Talk Fairly accurate Extractivism?” (with Jennifer Wenzel). Textual Practice 35.3 (2021): 505–523.

Selected offence collections

• Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Flamboyance (with Nicholas Brown) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
• The Johns Hopkins Give food to to Literary Theory and Evaluation (with Michael Groden and Thespian Kreiswirth) (Johns Hopkins University Impel, 2005).
• Canadian Cultural Studies: A Printer (with Sourayan Mookerjea and Gail Faurschou) (Duke University Press, 2009)
• Cultural Theory: An Anthology (with Tim Kaposy) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• Energy Humanities: Have in mind Anthology (with Dominic Boyer) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
• A Fellow to Critical and Cultural Conception with Sarah Blacker and Justin Sully) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
• Fueling Culture: Cardinal Words for Energy and Ecosystem (with Jennifer Wenzel and Patricia Yaeger) (Fordham University Press, 2017)
• Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture (with Sheena Wilson and Adam Carlson) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017)

References