James Wilt

Contact: j.morgan.wilt [at] gmail.com

Current position: Policy Development Manager at Climate Action Team Manitoba and research associate at the University of Manitoba

Education:

• PhD in Geography in the Department of Environment and Geography, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, at University of Manitoba (graduated Oct. 2025)
  • Researched environmental history of marine and aquatic oil spill research in Canada; dissertation available here

Books:

• Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police (ARP Books, 2024)
• Drinking Up the Revolution: How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy (Repeater Books, 2022)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk (Between the Lines Books, 2020)

Academic work:

• Wilt, James. 2025. “Own, Fund, and Spill: Canada’s ‘Frontier-Making State Project,’ 1973–84.” Political Geography 125 (March 2026): 103470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103470.
• McCreary, Tyler, James Wilt, and Warren Bernauer. 2026. “Accelerated Extractivism in the Age of Tariffs: Impacts on Indigenous Peoples.” The Extractive Industries and Society 25 (2026): 101782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2025.101782.
• Wilt, James, and Warren Bernauer. 2025. “Critical Minerals and Energy Transitions: Towards Ecosocialist Alternatives.” Capitalism Nature Socialism, June, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2025.2520300.
• Wilt, James. 2025. “Evidence.” In Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy, edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel, 128–131. West Virginia University Press.
• Bernauer, Warren, James Wilt, Glen Hostetler, and Jonathan Peyton. 2025. “Reproducing Extractivism: A Political Ecology Analysis of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Hydrocarbon Extraction in the Arctic.” Geoforum 162 (June): 104275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104275.
• Wilt, James. 2023. “All that is Frozen Melts into the Sea: Arctic Gas, Science, and Capitalist Natures.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 34 (3): 76–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2022.2141285.
• Erickson, Bruce, Liam Kennedy-Slaney, and James Wilt. 2022. “Ice Futures: The Extension of Jurisdiction in the Anthropocene North.” In Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting World, edited by Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin, 110–132. Manchester University Press.
• Wilt, James. 2019. “Alberta’s Cities Under the NDP.” In Orange Chinook: Politics in the New Alberta, edited by Duane Bratt, Keith Brownsey, Richard Sutherland, and David Taras, 271–292. University of Calgary Press.

Other writing: Canadian Dimension; Briarpatch; The Maple; The Narwhal; The Walrus; The Guardian; Edmonton Journal; Winnipeg Free Press; The Globe and Mail; Broadview; Institute of Alcohol Studies