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Kai Bosworth
@kaibosworth.bsky.social
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Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 2d
newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 22h
i know Verso got screwed over by their distributor going bankrupt and there's also inflation etc...but i'm still having some sticker shock from $40-$50 price tags
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 1d
Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!
Save the Date for the People's Special Meeting -- Oct 17 12PM EDT
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 2d
newly relevant footnote in here: "Krasznahorkai makes clear the schematics of a municipal coup by a power-thirsty Mrs. Eszter emergent in response to destructive street thuggery. The political-aesthetic form of her movement is not incidentally 'A TIDY YARD, AN ORDERLY HOUSE.'"
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 3d
really cool posts on the Verso blog from Eric Sheppard (last week) and Helga Leitner (below), on David Harvey's early work. wonder who they might have lined up for later books?

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
A View from Outside-In
It is 1973, and Social Justice and the City had just been published by Edward Arnold in London. I was a student at the University of Vienna in the Geography and Urban Planning program my fellow studen...
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
Expertly gathered and edited by Chloe Ahmann and Zeynep Oguz, the entire issue is going to be worth reading and teaching. It'll be easy to read front to back in a future S&S issue, but for now check out the thread in the OP!
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
bringing Burç Köstem's (@bkostem.bsky.social) elaboration of "consummative mode" of construction into conversation with renewable and carbon capture development dreams reveals an added dimension to the psychological rewards of these anti-democratic construction fantasies.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
in "'Just trust me, bro: The consummative mood of reactionary decarbonization' i think through the overlap between everyday tech bro masculinities and decarbonization advocacy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 5d
out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.
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Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 6d
📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 6d
she said "we don't have it here as much as you guys do."
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 6d
my mom (south dakota npr listener) somehow went from Stacy Abrams to the bell hooks book about class??
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 6d
some of my students this semester working on a political ecology of "pickleball gentrification"
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 9d
I'll be at Anthropocene Consequences with many comrades later this month. should be a compelling conversation in Chicago. much more info on the website

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 9d
I reviewed the new John Hultgren book - definitely of interest to geographers and political ecologists of all stripes! the book made me consider questions like how to understand anti-environmentalism as a global project, and whether it really is jobs vs the environment
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 22d
Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 11d
#geography #geosky ⤵️
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 11d
What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG?

Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.
What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? (hint: there have indeed been previous member votes in AAG, and some were even on "troubling world events"!). The graphic shows the AAG newsletter heading and describes following posts as "a look into the AAG archives"
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 12d
that's not me! the far more British Kai
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 12d
wrote a climate book?
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 12d
brutal
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 16d
Bloomberg did some great video journalism about the oil wastewater crisis in Texas.

If nothing else, you need to learn about Hawk Dunlap. If you were scripting a movie about the oil industry, you couldn't come up with a better character.
The Looming Disaster Under America’s Biggest Oil Field
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 16d
"Western institutions marshalled all...academic and digital repression against grassroots witnessing, unsuccessfully so far...the latest functions of a “geographic violence” that requires the myth of absolute distance between the West and the Other to obscure the proximity of colonial warfare."
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 16d
Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...
Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online
Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 18d
How have geographers, geography departments, and geographic thought been affected by Israel?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d
I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 22d
Check out @kaibosworth.bsky.social's review of John Hultgren's "The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States," published in 2025 by @mitpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 24d
horrific map projection lol
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 24d
1987 report on Johns Hopkins geography grad students demanding their university divest from apartheid South Africa. they sustained severe burns when their campus encampment was firebombed by frat bros. report from the Socialist Geography Specialty Group newsletter.
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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · Sep 4
🎂✨ We are happy to share our new issue, “Ten Years of The Funambulist” (September–October 2025)!

It features ten guest editors, Michaëla Danjé, Xan Coppinger, Lissell Quiroz, Kai Bosworth, Sara Greavu, Andrea Francke, Giuliana Vidarte, WAI Architecture Think Tank, Ana María León, and Koni Benson.
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