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Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2020). Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta. Political Geography, 78, Article 102132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102132

Alberta's bitumen industry is frequently identified as a key site of environmental politics in the Anthropocene owing to the scale of its fossil fuel extraction operations. While popular images of surface mining activities often focus these discussio... Read More about Settler geology: Earth's deep history and the governance of in situ oil spills in Alberta.

The moral geography of the Earth system (2019)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2019). The moral geography of the Earth system. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 721-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12308

Human impacts on the Earth system have profound moral consequences. The uneven generation and distribution of harms, and the acceleration of human forces now altering how the Earth system functions, also trouble moral accounts of belonging. This arti... Read More about The moral geography of the Earth system.