Isabelle Boucher

Isabelle Boucher (MA in Philosophy) is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Drawing on feminist STS, environmental humanities, and political ecology, her research project examines the grammars of energy in the context of climate change mitigation strategies. Her current focus is on analyzing how Western epistemologies and ontologies, imbued by information theory and Earth System Science’s cybernetic understanding of our planet, are shaping climate action and technological agencies. By considering the triangulation of knowledge, power, and aesthetics through their colonial and extractive histories, she highlights the critical intersection of environmental and social justice issues and argues for the importance of epistemic justice at the heart of decolonial energy imaginaries. 

She is part of Concordia's Feminist Media Studio, Mcgill University's Grierson Research Group, and the SSHRC-funded project "Walking the Talk: Climate Moves" at the University of Alberta.