Kai Bosworth wonders whether populism can turn us into climate activists

Kai Bosworth is a human geographer and political ecologist, and an Associate Professor at the School of World Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently working on a book project provisionally entitled ​Protectors of the Subsurface: Militant Investigation and Critical Imagination in Anti-Oil Activism. In this discussion, we look at his terrific book Pipeline Populism at a moment of petro-populist boosterism in Canada, the United States and in many polities globally. Pipeline Populism aims to understand opposition to pipelines in the US and the ways these moments have transformed the politics of climate justice. The book is part of Bosworth's broader interest in affect and emotion, radical politics and the ways that nature and ecology get enlisted enrolled in social projects of oppression or liberation. #pipeline #oilandgas #oil #politics #energyshift #populism