Kai Bosworth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 392186 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kai Bosworth |
| PRENOMES | Kai |
| SOBRENOME | Bosworth |
| ASSINATURA | BOSWORTH K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7381-648X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Critical University Sustainability Studies
This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radical possibilities from students, faculty, staff, and non‐university organizations. We situate university sustainability historically through an examination of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)'s self‐repo…
Just trust me, bro
This intervention introduces and describes the "decarbonization bro," a subject of green masculinity who demonstrates a "consummative desire" for rapid infrastructure deployment. Unlike far-right ecologies that defend a nostalgic green past, the decarb bro seeks a technocratic future where participatory democracy is sidelined in favor of efficiency and completion. I describe the decarb bro with reference to permitting reform debates in the United…
What do we want from a concept
The article ‘What is “affective infrastructure”?’ sought to historicize and rework a concept in geographical and philosophical thought. In doing so, it aimed to understand how scholars use the notion of ‘affective infrastructure’ to clarify the specific (but also rather diverse) relationships among spaces or worlds or ideas to which it was applied. The article also offered my own wagers: that in grasping at infrastructure today, scholars are some…
The Ambiguous Role of (Eco)populism in the Work of Timothy Luke
The concept of “eco-populism” has been used by the political theorist Timothy Luke to designate the possibility of open-ended green political futures which might be constructed beyond the limited ecological imaginaries of technoscience, neoliberalism, and Marxism. This article interrogates the conceptual origins through which “eco-populism” became the preferred name for this alternative. Eco-populism is taken to rightly critique some of the class…
Beyond the Chokepoint
Blockades are a long‐standing tool used by political groups of various kinds to interrupt or redirect flows of materials, capital, and people. In this introduction to the Symposium, “On the Blockade: Geographies of Circulation and Struggle”, we review recent debates concerning the politics of spatial disruption, chokepoints, and circulation struggles. In doing so, we question some tendencies to fetishise the seizure of capital circulation as a de…
The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security
Scholars argue that blockades of infrastructure pose an economic threat to capital circulation. This explains how activists can gain power through strategic spatial occupations and why states seek to protect “critical infrastructure” from disruption. However, Indigenous‐led blockades of pipelines gain power not (only) by disrupting economic flows alone, but by eliciting state anxieties about the racialised political, psychic and economic project …
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface
A proliferation of examinations of vertical, voluminous, subsurface, subterranean/subaqueous, geological, or underground relationships has emerged in the last few years of geographic thought. This article seeks to summarize four key themes in which the subsurface has gained prominence: geopolitics, natural resource extraction, cultural geographies, and epistemological politics. The article nonetheless critiques ahistorical, presentist, and/or Eur…
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of ‘affective infrastructure’ in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some scholars use the concept to draw our attention to the emotions produced by concrete infrastructure systems. On the other hand, scholars have sought to locate how affect might condition forms of political organization. The concept risks analytic confusion: is ‘infrastruc…
Pipeline Populism
Populism and the rise of the far right
The bad environmentalism of 'nature is healing' memes
What can memes teach us about shifting popular-cultural understandings of nature? While a certain form of environmentalism with proclivities for dour, self-righteous, sentimental, or apocalyptic tones is often taken to be hegemonic, Nicole Seymour argues that a more irreverent 'low environmental culture' should not be occluded. Humor and irony can serve as emotional registers for environmental media that provide openings for the emergence of play…
They're treating us like Indians!”
While political ecologists have analysed the role of private property in creating and sustaining ecological inequalities, this approach does not often take property as a foundational element of racial capitalism. I argue that the defence of private property in contestation of North American oil pipelines demonstrates the centrality of property not only to the structural reproduction of capital, but also to its Euro‐American subject. Emphasising t…
The People's Climate March
The People Know Best
Critical scholarship suggests that environmental populism is either an expression of radical democracy beyond the paternalistic liberalism of mainstream environmentalism (Meyer 2008 Meyer, J. M. 2008. Populism, paternalism and the state of environmentalism in the U.S. Environmental Politics 17 (2):219–36.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) or that it is paranoid, irrational, and merely reactive to elite technocratic …
On the material excesses of feminist geopolitics
Thinking permeable matter through feminist geophilosophy
In this paper, I argue that encounters with hydrogeologic processes encourage feminists to rethink the permeable surfaces between human bodies, ecological systems, and political events. Contemporary geographical accounts of environmental knowledge controversies are insufficiently attentive to how geologic processes exceed and undermine instrumental deliberative political solutions to environmental problems. Through a mobilization of feminist geop…
Boom and bust methodology
Bad environmentalism
Thinking permeable matter through feminist geophilosophy
In this paper, I argue that encounters with hydrogeologic processes encourage feminists to rethink the permeable surfaces between human bodies, ecological systems, and political events. Contemporary geographical accounts of environmental knowledge controversies are insufficiently attentive to how geologic processes exceed and undermine instrumental deliberative political solutions to environmental problems. Through a mobilization of feminist geop…
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of ‘affective infrastructure’ in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some scholars use the concept to draw our attention to the emotions produced by concrete infrastructure systems. On the other hand, scholars have sought to locate how affect might condition forms of political organization. The concept risks analytic confusion: is ‘infrastruc…
The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security
Scholars argue that blockades of infrastructure pose an economic threat to capital circulation. This explains how activists can gain power through strategic spatial occupations and why states seek to protect “critical infrastructure” from disruption. However, Indigenous‐led blockades of pipelines gain power not (only) by disrupting economic flows alone, but by eliciting state anxieties about the racialised political, psychic and economic project …
The People Know Best
Critical scholarship suggests that environmental populism is either an expression of radical democracy beyond the paternalistic liberalism of mainstream environmentalism (Meyer 2008 Meyer, J. M. 2008. Populism, paternalism and the state of environmentalism in the U.S. Environmental Politics 17 (2):219–36.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) or that it is paranoid, irrational, and merely reactive to elite technocratic …
Beyond the Chokepoint
Blockades are a long‐standing tool used by political groups of various kinds to interrupt or redirect flows of materials, capital, and people. In this introduction to the Symposium, “On the Blockade: Geographies of Circulation and Struggle”, we review recent debates concerning the politics of spatial disruption, chokepoints, and circulation struggles. In doing so, we question some tendencies to fetishise the seizure of capital circulation as a de…
The bad environmentalism of 'nature is healing' memes
What can memes teach us about shifting popular-cultural understandings of nature? While a certain form of environmentalism with proclivities for dour, self-righteous, sentimental, or apocalyptic tones is often taken to be hegemonic, Nicole Seymour argues that a more irreverent 'low environmental culture' should not be occluded. Humor and irony can serve as emotional registers for environmental media that provide openings for the emergence of play…
The People's Climate March
They're treating us like Indians!”
While political ecologists have analysed the role of private property in creating and sustaining ecological inequalities, this approach does not often take property as a foundational element of racial capitalism. I argue that the defence of private property in contestation of North American oil pipelines demonstrates the centrality of property not only to the structural reproduction of capital, but also to its Euro‐American subject. Emphasising t…
Bad environmentalism
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface
A proliferation of examinations of vertical, voluminous, subsurface, subterranean/subaqueous, geological, or underground relationships has emerged in the last few years of geographic thought. This article seeks to summarize four key themes in which the subsurface has gained prominence: geopolitics, natural resource extraction, cultural geographies, and epistemological politics. The article nonetheless critiques ahistorical, presentist, and/or Eur…
Populism and the rise of the far right
Boom and bust methodology
On the material excesses of feminist geopolitics
Boom and bust methodology
Thinking permeable matter through feminist geophilosophy
In this paper, I argue that encounters with hydrogeologic processes encourage feminists to rethink the permeable surfaces between human bodies, ecological systems, and political events. Contemporary geographical accounts of environmental knowledge controversies are insufficiently attentive to how geologic processes exceed and undermine instrumental deliberative political solutions to environmental problems. Through a mobilization of feminist geop…
On the material excesses of feminist geopolitics
The People Know Best
Critical scholarship suggests that environmental populism is either an expression of radical democracy beyond the paternalistic liberalism of mainstream environmentalism (Meyer 2008 Meyer, J. M. 2008. Populism, paternalism and the state of environmentalism in the U.S. Environmental Politics 17 (2):219–36.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) or that it is paranoid, irrational, and merely reactive to elite technocratic …
The People's Climate March
They're treating us like Indians!”
While political ecologists have analysed the role of private property in creating and sustaining ecological inequalities, this approach does not often take property as a foundational element of racial capitalism. I argue that the defence of private property in contestation of North American oil pipelines demonstrates the centrality of property not only to the structural reproduction of capital, but also to its Euro‐American subject. Emphasising t…
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of ‘affective infrastructure’ in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some scholars use the concept to draw our attention to the emotions produced by concrete infrastructure systems. On the other hand, scholars have sought to locate how affect might condition forms of political organization. The concept risks analytic confusion: is ‘infrastruc…
Pipeline Populism
Populism and the rise of the far right
The bad environmentalism of 'nature is healing' memes
What can memes teach us about shifting popular-cultural understandings of nature? While a certain form of environmentalism with proclivities for dour, self-righteous, sentimental, or apocalyptic tones is often taken to be hegemonic, Nicole Seymour argues that a more irreverent 'low environmental culture' should not be occluded. Humor and irony can serve as emotional registers for environmental media that provide openings for the emergence of play…
What do we want from a concept
The article ‘What is “affective infrastructure”?’ sought to historicize and rework a concept in geographical and philosophical thought. In doing so, it aimed to understand how scholars use the notion of ‘affective infrastructure’ to clarify the specific (but also rather diverse) relationships among spaces or worlds or ideas to which it was applied. The article also offered my own wagers: that in grasping at infrastructure today, scholars are some…
The Ambiguous Role of (Eco)populism in the Work of Timothy Luke
The concept of “eco-populism” has been used by the political theorist Timothy Luke to designate the possibility of open-ended green political futures which might be constructed beyond the limited ecological imaginaries of technoscience, neoliberalism, and Marxism. This article interrogates the conceptual origins through which “eco-populism” became the preferred name for this alternative. Eco-populism is taken to rightly critique some of the class…
Beyond the Chokepoint
Blockades are a long‐standing tool used by political groups of various kinds to interrupt or redirect flows of materials, capital, and people. In this introduction to the Symposium, “On the Blockade: Geographies of Circulation and Struggle”, we review recent debates concerning the politics of spatial disruption, chokepoints, and circulation struggles. In doing so, we question some tendencies to fetishise the seizure of capital circulation as a de…
The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security
Scholars argue that blockades of infrastructure pose an economic threat to capital circulation. This explains how activists can gain power through strategic spatial occupations and why states seek to protect “critical infrastructure” from disruption. However, Indigenous‐led blockades of pipelines gain power not (only) by disrupting economic flows alone, but by eliciting state anxieties about the racialised political, psychic and economic project …
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface
A proliferation of examinations of vertical, voluminous, subsurface, subterranean/subaqueous, geological, or underground relationships has emerged in the last few years of geographic thought. This article seeks to summarize four key themes in which the subsurface has gained prominence: geopolitics, natural resource extraction, cultural geographies, and epistemological politics. The article nonetheless critiques ahistorical, presentist, and/or Eur…
Bad environmentalism
Just trust me, bro
This intervention introduces and describes the "decarbonization bro," a subject of green masculinity who demonstrates a "consummative desire" for rapid infrastructure deployment. Unlike far-right ecologies that defend a nostalgic green past, the decarb bro seeks a technocratic future where participatory democracy is sidelined in favor of efficiency and completion. I describe the decarb bro with reference to permitting reform debates in the United…
Critical University Sustainability Studies
This article places university sustainability within broader literatures of critical and abolitionist university studies to understand how it depoliticizes environmental action and dispels more radical possibilities from students, faculty, staff, and non‐university organizations. We situate university sustainability historically through an examination of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)'s self‐repo…
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Political economy (7 obras)