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Isabelle Boucher
Isabelle Boucher’s work is situated at the intersection of feminist STS, environmental humanities, and political ecology. Her research project examines the cultural values, the knowledge politics and the political economy that underpin the recent development of Earth System Science (ESS). More specifically Isabelle questions how ESS, rooted in the history of cybernetics, informs global and local renewable energy and sustainability narratives, policies, and infrastructures, and seeks to uncover its underlying assumptions about “the planetary,” without ignoring the complexities and critical potential of this science in the context of environmental remediation projects. By triangulating the grammars of energy, sustainability, and power according to ESS (neo-)colonial histories and scientific methodologies, she highlights the critical intersection of environmental and social justice issues and argues for the importance of epistemic justice at the heart of decolonial energy imaginaries.
Institutional Address: Concordia University, Communication Studies, CJ 4.405, Loyola Campus, 7141 Sherbrooke St. Ouest, H4B 1R6, Montreal, Qc