Refereed publications
- Kendall, John, and Jennifer Baka. 2026. “Repeating crises, redundant solutions: Toward a political-industrial ecology of the hydrogen fix.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 0 (0): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2026.2720662
- Kendall, John. 2026. “The birth of industrial-geophysical reason: A historical epistemology of the subsurface.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas 15 (29): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.13135/2280-8574/12492
- Kendall, John. 2024. “On the emergence of digital volumetric space: Geophysical prospecting and the American oilfield in the early 20th century.” Geoforum 155: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104094
Policy Briefs
- Kendall, John. 2026. “New frontiers of fossil capital: Oil and gas labor, energy markets, and decarbonization after fracking.” Common Wealth. https://www.common-wealth.org/publications/new-frontiers-of-fossil-capital
Book Chapters
- Kendall, John. 2022. “Digital oil and the planetary oilfield.” In Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities. Edited by Charles Travis, Deborah P. Dixon, Luke Bergmann, Robert Legg, and Arlene Crampsie. London and New York: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003082798-36/digital-oil-planetary-oilfield-john-kendall
Book Reviews
- Kendall, John. 2025. “Prices, profit, and the planet.” Cultural Critique Online, Frame 11. (Review of Brett Christophers, 2024, The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. London and New York: Routledge). https://manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-frame-011-rev-02/section/0788cb5c-475d-4a79-951d-c24be5722426
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