
We Were in It
Stories About Energy Transition
Memorial University Press
Will be published approx. on 14. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-990445-37-8 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together academics, scientists, creative writers, visual artists, lawyers, and policy makers, We Were In It is a collaborative effort to attack the problem of climate crisis from very different backgrounds and perspectives, through fiction. The fusion of scholarship, literary writing, research, and creativity allows the strengths of many forms of writing to address the unfolding crisis of our modern petrocultures. Relying on the brevity of flash fiction to reflect the ticking clock of the climate crisis, the stories contained in this collection are slick as oil but against oil. They are a speculation about the future, taking notes from the present and the past as a portal to a better world.
Reviews / Votes
"The writers manage to hone in on the people at the centre of the crisis, their complexity, complicity and relationships. Under the guidance of Moore and Wilson, We Were In It is a fascinating survey of the cli-fi imaginings of a diverse group of thinkers." - Erica Butler, Atlantic Books TodayMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-990445-37-8 (9781990445378)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lisa Moore is the author of the short story collections Something for Everyone, Open, and Degrees of Nakedness and the novels Alligator, Caught, February, and This Is How We Love, as well as the young adult novel Flannery. She has co-edited, along with Dede Crane, 24 True Stories About Birth by Canadian Authors, co-edited The Democracy Cookbook with Alex Marland, and co-edited, with Stephen Crocker, Muskrat Falls: How A Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Lisa has also edited four anthologies of short fiction and is a co-librettist for the opera February, based on her novel by the same name. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sheena Wilson is Professor of Media, Writing, and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the co-founder of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and principal investigator of Just Powers. Her research interests involve an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to studying how the extractivist worldview not only contributes to climate change but allows for the exploitation of gendered, classed, and racialized people. A commitment to feminism and decolonization as method and praxis as well as object of study informs her current research and all of her ongoing research partnerships under the banner of Just Powers. Her publications include, among many others, the edited collection Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Cultures with Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman (2017) and the short film Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World (2015). Her monograph in process is entitled New Logics for the Climate Crisis: Deep Energy Literacy.
Kamei Lim is an artist practicing in Edmonton, Alberta, in Treaty 6 territory. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Alberta. With the use of vivid colour palettes and dreamscape imagery, she explores themes of memory, superstition, and culture. Kamei works primarily in painting, printmaking, and book arts.
Sheena Wilson is Professor of Media, Writing, and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the co-founder of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and principal investigator of Just Powers. Her research interests involve an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to studying how the extractivist worldview not only contributes to climate change but allows for the exploitation of gendered, classed, and racialized people. A commitment to feminism and decolonization as method and praxis as well as object of study informs her current research and all of her ongoing research partnerships under the banner of Just Powers. Her publications include, among many others, the edited collection Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Cultures with Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman (2017) and the short film Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World (2015). Her monograph in process is entitled New Logics for the Climate Crisis: Deep Energy Literacy.
Kamei Lim is an artist practicing in Edmonton, Alberta, in Treaty 6 territory. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Alberta. With the use of vivid colour palettes and dreamscape imagery, she explores themes of memory, superstition, and culture. Kamei works primarily in painting, printmaking, and book arts.
Content
1 INTRODUCTION
3 STORIES
5 No Speculation in Cree by Janice Makokis
6 Out of Gas by Sheena Wilson
11 The House in St. John's Wood by Caitlin Fisher
12 Thirty-Seven Years, Her Neighbour's Version by Sourayan Mookerjea
15 Telegram Conversations by Soheila Esfahani
16 Orange Tarp by Patrick Mahon
19 Protest by Ruth Beer
20 Montreal Ice Storm 2030 by Satoshi Ikeda
23 The Snowman by Scott Smallwood
26 Mountain Man Brings Us Creator's Gift by Kurtis McAdam
30 Alone and in Trouble by Sheena Wilson
35 A Pandemic Love Letter by Natalie Loveless
39 The Sound by Lisa Moore
42 Service Station by Sheena Wilson
45 The Little Things You Do Together by Luke Johnson
51 PEI III, Leviathan Odyssey by Sourayan Mookerjea
55 Calf by Lisa Moore
59 The Mall and What's Next by Ruth Beer
60 After the End by Evan Davies
64 Blot Plot Neon Toxic by Sourayan Mookerjea
67 Blue Room by Sheena Wilson
70 Flower Power by Lisa Moore
72 A Crisis of Connection by Natalie Loveless
75 Black Period by Patrick Mahon
76 Robin and Thunderbird by Kurtis McAdam
79 The Goddesses Must be Angry by Sheena Wilson
80 The Shack by Scott Smallwood
83 The Spill by Lisa Moore
89 The Site by Satoshi Ikeda
92 Hands of an Angel by Sourayan Mookerjea
98 Miasma by Sheena Wilson
105 Traces by Soheila Esfahani
106 Ecstatic Forms of Disappearance by Luke Johnson
109 Out of Magic by Caitlin Fisher
115 From the Sky by Scott Smallwood
119 Rescue Mission by Satoshi Ikeda
120 Northwest Company Town by Ruth Beer
124 Power Ball by Patrick Mahon
127 All That It Wasn't by Sheena Wilson
128 Mask, Exploded by Lisa Moore
131 Convoy by Sheena Wilson
142 Snakes and Ladders by Sourayan Mookerjea
147 Rainbow by Janice Makokis
149 PROMPTS by Lisa Moore
150 Dialogue Prompt
152 Voice Prompt
154 Point-of-View Prompt
156 Ghost Story Prompt
159 Character Prompt
160 AFTERWORD
163 CONTRIBUTORS
167 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3 STORIES
5 No Speculation in Cree by Janice Makokis
6 Out of Gas by Sheena Wilson
11 The House in St. John's Wood by Caitlin Fisher
12 Thirty-Seven Years, Her Neighbour's Version by Sourayan Mookerjea
15 Telegram Conversations by Soheila Esfahani
16 Orange Tarp by Patrick Mahon
19 Protest by Ruth Beer
20 Montreal Ice Storm 2030 by Satoshi Ikeda
23 The Snowman by Scott Smallwood
26 Mountain Man Brings Us Creator's Gift by Kurtis McAdam
30 Alone and in Trouble by Sheena Wilson
35 A Pandemic Love Letter by Natalie Loveless
39 The Sound by Lisa Moore
42 Service Station by Sheena Wilson
45 The Little Things You Do Together by Luke Johnson
51 PEI III, Leviathan Odyssey by Sourayan Mookerjea
55 Calf by Lisa Moore
59 The Mall and What's Next by Ruth Beer
60 After the End by Evan Davies
64 Blot Plot Neon Toxic by Sourayan Mookerjea
67 Blue Room by Sheena Wilson
70 Flower Power by Lisa Moore
72 A Crisis of Connection by Natalie Loveless
75 Black Period by Patrick Mahon
76 Robin and Thunderbird by Kurtis McAdam
79 The Goddesses Must be Angry by Sheena Wilson
80 The Shack by Scott Smallwood
83 The Spill by Lisa Moore
89 The Site by Satoshi Ikeda
92 Hands of an Angel by Sourayan Mookerjea
98 Miasma by Sheena Wilson
105 Traces by Soheila Esfahani
106 Ecstatic Forms of Disappearance by Luke Johnson
109 Out of Magic by Caitlin Fisher
115 From the Sky by Scott Smallwood
119 Rescue Mission by Satoshi Ikeda
120 Northwest Company Town by Ruth Beer
124 Power Ball by Patrick Mahon
127 All That It Wasn't by Sheena Wilson
128 Mask, Exploded by Lisa Moore
131 Convoy by Sheena Wilson
142 Snakes and Ladders by Sourayan Mookerjea
147 Rainbow by Janice Makokis
149 PROMPTS by Lisa Moore
150 Dialogue Prompt
152 Voice Prompt
154 Point-of-View Prompt
156 Ghost Story Prompt
159 Character Prompt
160 AFTERWORD
163 CONTRIBUTORS
167 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS