Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsoletehttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.social/post/3m724ogehec2qToday I learned that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was reviewed in AHR by @calebwellum.bsky.social. I'm grateful to Caleb for the sharp, generous review, and for all the work he's been doing in energy humanities. Link to review below, or DM me for a PDF! https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/130/2/980/8158847?redirectedFrom=fulltext02 Dec 2025 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:z2hppaix2uvcbjrel35v55aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m724ogehec2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.social/post/3ly5q7xypds2uLuminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us: "Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat." https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/968780 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/968780ore06 Sep 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:z2hppaix2uvcbjrel35v55aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly5q7xypds2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.social/post/3lxz44d4rks2h“We have chosen a life of humanistic study, because we believe it will bind us more closely to you, to those who have preceded us, to those who will follow, and to the lands that we rely on.” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letter-students-academia-right-intellectual-life/tnamp/04 Sep 2025 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:z2hppaix2uvcbjrel35v55aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxz44d4rks2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.social/post/3lxawnj7lf22pBelated announcement of a collection I'm proud to be part of: Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, out from Bloomsbury late last year. 1/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/biocultural-empire-9781350451056/25 Aug 2025 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:z2hppaix2uvcbjrel35v55aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxawnj7lf22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jamieljones.bsky.social/post/3lut2jb3wwc2jHuge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington! [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2025 22:03 +0000at://did:plc:z2hppaix2uvcbjrel35v55aj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lut2jb3wwc2j