Rachel Webb Jekanowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 6095051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Webb Jekanowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Webb |
| FAMILY NAME | Jekanowski |
| SIGNATURE | JEKANOWSKI R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0004-8293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Editing the Environmental Humanities
Introducing Sustainable Publishing
Introduction to Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media
The production of oil is imbricated in financial and socio-political systems as well as ways of mediating the worlds in which we live. Like infrastructures used to transport fuel, audio-visual media and other forms of cultural production (museums, poetry, film, visual art) can serve as conduits for ideas about energy, identity, relationships to the nonhuman world, and history. This special issue of Imaginations on “Critical and Creative Engagemen…
Wild Blue Media
Reviewed by: Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawaterby Melody Jue Rachel Webb Jekanowski Media, Underwater. Melody Jue. Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater. Duke UP, 2020. 240 pp. $99.95 hc, $25.95 pbk. It can be estranging for terrestrial readers to read and write about the sea. Melody Jue's compelling new monograph Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawaterfocuses on the ocean's ability to disorient and displace, using [End Page 178]s…
From Labrador to Leipzig
Background: Since 1919, the Hudson’s Bay Company has sponsored films to document and advertise its trading operations. Films such as Hudson’s Bay Company Centenary Celebrations (1919), The Heritage of Adventure (1920), and Leipzig Exhibition footage (1930) offered views of North American landscapes and Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts and department stores alongside ethnographic footage of Indigenous Peoples. Analysis: Drawing on archival resea…
Fuelling the Nation
Background Canadian nontheatrical cinema has historically positioned natural resource extraction as intrinsic to the country’s economic development and national identity. During the 1940s and 1950s in particular with the discovery of Alberta’s vast oil reserves, industrial and documentary films about oil extraction associated petroleum with nation-building and modernization. Analysis This article examines The Story of Oil (1946, produced by the N…
Fuelling the Nation
Background Canadian nontheatrical cinema has historically positioned natural resource extraction as intrinsic to the country’s economic development and national identity. During the 1940s and 1950s in particular with the discovery of Alberta’s vast oil reserves, industrial and documentary films about oil extraction associated petroleum with nation-building and modernization.Analysis This article examines The Story of Oil (1946, produced by the Na…
Land in Revolt
In this article, I examine the politicization of natural resources like water and land, and the wider entanglement of environments and politics, in Egyptian cinematic imaginaries. I focus on Youssef Chahine’s film al-Ard (The land, 1969) and its politicization of agricultural land during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954–1970) and the British colonial occupation of Egypt (1882–1956). Because histories of colonialism and nationalism in th…
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Fuelling the Nation
Background Canadian nontheatrical cinema has historically positioned natural resource extraction as intrinsic to the country’s economic development and national identity. During the 1940s and 1950s in particular with the discovery of Alberta’s vast oil reserves, industrial and documentary films about oil extraction associated petroleum with nation-building and modernization. Analysis This article examines The Story of Oil (1946, produced by the N…
Fuelling the Nation
Background Canadian nontheatrical cinema has historically positioned natural resource extraction as intrinsic to the country’s economic development and national identity. During the 1940s and 1950s in particular with the discovery of Alberta’s vast oil reserves, industrial and documentary films about oil extraction associated petroleum with nation-building and modernization.Analysis This article examines The Story of Oil (1946, produced by the Na…
Land in Revolt
In this article, I examine the politicization of natural resources like water and land, and the wider entanglement of environments and politics, in Egyptian cinematic imaginaries. I focus on Youssef Chahine’s film al-Ard (The land, 1969) and its politicization of agricultural land during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954–1970) and the British colonial occupation of Egypt (1882–1956). Because histories of colonialism and nationalism in th…
From Labrador to Leipzig
Background: Since 1919, the Hudson’s Bay Company has sponsored films to document and advertise its trading operations. Films such as Hudson’s Bay Company Centenary Celebrations (1919), The Heritage of Adventure (1920), and Leipzig Exhibition footage (1930) offered views of North American landscapes and Hudson’s Bay Company trading posts and department stores alongside ethnographic footage of Indigenous Peoples. Analysis: Drawing on archival resea…
Introduction to Critical and Creative Engagements with Petro-Media
The production of oil is imbricated in financial and socio-political systems as well as ways of mediating the worlds in which we live. Like infrastructures used to transport fuel, audio-visual media and other forms of cultural production (museums, poetry, film, visual art) can serve as conduits for ideas about energy, identity, relationships to the nonhuman world, and history. This special issue of Imaginations on “Critical and Creative Engagemen…
Wild Blue Media
Reviewed by: Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawaterby Melody Jue Rachel Webb Jekanowski Media, Underwater. Melody Jue. Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater. Duke UP, 2020. 240 pp. $99.95 hc, $25.95 pbk. It can be estranging for terrestrial readers to read and write about the sea. Melody Jue's compelling new monograph Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawaterfocuses on the ocean's ability to disorient and displace, using [End Page 178]s…
Editing the Environmental Humanities
Introducing Sustainable Publishing
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works)