{"id":4346,"date":"2025-02-24T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=4346"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:44:31","slug":"march-13-siobhan-angus-and-warren-cariou-tar-remedies-methods-of-return-and-re-vision-on-colonized-contaminated-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/march-13-siobhan-angus-and-warren-cariou-tar-remedies-methods-of-return-and-re-vision-on-colonized-contaminated-land\/","title":{"rendered":"March 13: Siobhan Angus and Warren Cariou: \u201cTar Remedies: Methods of Return and Re-vision on Colonized\/Contaminated Land\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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March 13: Siobhan Angus and Warren Cariou: \u201cTar Remedies: Methods of Return and Re-vision on Colonized\/Contaminated Land\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Join us on March 13 as we welcome back Siobhan Angus and newly welcome Warren Cariou to discuss their new article in the Environmental Humanities Journal. “This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first section is an analysis of Warren Cariou\u2019s photographic practice, situating his work within themes of toxicity and hope. Written by an art historian, it argues that we can read the petrographs through a mode of critical spectatorship that generates questions about how extraction makes our world and how these processes are historically contingent choices based in what society has chosen to value. The second part is a short reflection by Warren Cariou on his practice and how he theorizes hope in the context of pollution.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SIOBHAN ANGUS is assistant professor of communication and media studies at Carleton University, where she teaches the history of photography and the environmental humanities. Her current research explores the visual culture of resource extraction with a focus on materiality, perceptions of nature, and environmental justice. Her monograph\u00a0Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2024.<\/p>\n

WARREN CARIOU is a writer, photographer, and professor based in Winnipeg. His work focuses on the environmental philosophies and oral traditions of Indigenous peoples in western Canada, especially in connection to his M\u00e9tis heritage. He has published works of memoir, fiction, poetry, and film, and his bitumen photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. He teaches in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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