The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation inter­vention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. The E.E.R.K combines image, text, and sound to riff on the idea of a repair manual—that staple genre of self-help and self-making—while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers.

Sourayan Mookerjea is Professor of Sociology and research director of the Intermedia Research Studio in the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, in Treaty Six Territory. His areas of research include intermedia research-creation, critical and anti-oppression social theory, global sociology, political ecology and energy humanities. His research addresses questions of ecological debt, the cultural and class politics of renewable energy system change, and engages critically with eco-feminist degrowth theory, specifically on the question of delinking from the world-ecology of racial capitalism and from the colonizers’ models of the world. He is co-director of Feminist Energy Futures Powershift and Environmental Social Justice and iDoc: Intermedia and Documentary as well as a co-investigator on the research-creation collaboration, Speculative Energy Futures. He is a member of the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance Writing Collective and education coordinator for Climate Action@University of Alberta.

Mark Simpson is a settler scholar and professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta (Treaty Six/Métis Territory) who investigates US culture, energy humanities, and mobility studies. Recent examples of his scholarship have appeared in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Postmodern Culture, and English Studies in Canada, and in volumes from presses such as Minnesota, Fordham, Edinburgh, Toronto, McGill-Queen’s, and Oxford. He is a co-founder of the After Oil Collective and a core member of the Petrocultures Research Group.