Laura Pannekoek

Laura Pannekoek works in environmental and energy humanities. She is interested in geoscientific technologies as forms of environmental mediation. Her dissertation project is a technological history of geological surveying. It tracks the convergence of geology and settler colonialism in Canada in the 19th century to contemporary geological exploration for and extraction of critical minerals.

Works:

“Nuclear.” Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities. Edited by Graeme MacDonald and Janet Stewart. Routledge. Forthcoming 2025.

“Exhibiting Settler Geology: The Geological Survey of Canada’s 19th Century Mineral Collections” Museum and Society. Forthcoming 2024.

"The Nuclear Mundane: Geology and the Unthinkable." Energy Humanities and Energy Transition: Current State and Future Directions. Edited by Matuś Mišik and Nada Kudjunžić. Springer. December 2020.

Public Writing:

“Sabotage als Collectieve Actie” (Sabotage as Collective Action). De Nederlandse Boekengids/The Dutch Review of Books. July 2023.

"One Place as Good as Another." with Paul Nadeau. Heliotrope, special issue on "Media Rurality". April 2023.

"Promise or Perturbation: Five Fieldnotes from the Canadian Roadside." with Paul Nadeau. Figuring Territory. Canadian Center for Architecture. April 2023.

"Nuclear Media from Signs to Sediment." Kunstlicht. vol 39. no. 3. Special issue on 'Nuclear Aesthetics.' February 2019.

"Of(f) the Grid." Editorial. Soapbox Journal. vol. 1, no. 2. October 2019.

"Foreword: Culture, Analysis, and Practices of Listening." Soapbox Journal. vol. 1, no. 1. February 2019.