We've got another edition of our intermittent interview show for you, this one featuring Sadie Couture in conversation with Hannah Tollefson.

You'll remember Sadie as co-producer and reporter of FE3.4 — Dama Drama. Since then, she’s become a PhD student in Communication Studies at McGill University pursuing research at the intersection of media history, sound studies, and feminist science and technology studies.

Hannah's work is situated at the intersection of environmental, media, and infrastructure studies. She researches the role of socio-technical systems in land, water, and labour struggles, infrastructures of energy transition, and the politics of green capitalism.

This episode focusses on Hannah’s writing on the Port of Vancouver, the concept of "tidewater", the nature of logistics, and the supply chain in which we’re all entangled. Don't miss it.

(Hannah's dissertation, the main subject of this discussion, is under University embargo until Dec 14, 2025. Check back here after then for a link. Until then, one chapter is available below).

Hannah kindly compiled the following citations:

References

KD Derickson, The Annihilation of Time by Space: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335733261_The_annihilation_of_time_by_space
Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816680887/the-deadly-life-of-logistics/
Reconstructing Pre-contact Shoreline (UBC article): https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0407075
Hannah Tollefson, on the ECHO program in The Journal of Environmental Media https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383972463_On_synchronicity_Green_shipping's_logistical_and_real-time_media

Related news & links

Future Ecologies episode “Terminal”: https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-4-2-terminal
On plans to dredge Burrard Inlet: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dredge-burrard-inlet-vancouver-fraser-port-authority-tsleil-waututh-nation-1.7545465
On tanker traffic impacts of TMX: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tanker-traffic-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-1.7305702
Report on effectiveness of habitat compensation in the Fraser : https://www.cmnbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Assessing-Habitat-Compensation_2016Appendix-I-IV.pdf

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