International Studies

Education

• Ph.D. Geography, University of Minnesota
• M.A. Geography, University of Minnesota
• B.A. Environmental Studies, Macalester College

Research Interests

Bosworth is the author of "Pipeline Populism: Affective Infrastructures of Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century," which examines the possibilities and limitations of pipeline opposition movements in the central United States in grounding the popular politics of climate justice.

His ongoing research examines how environmental “protectors of the subsurface” intertwine data collection and environmental imaginaries in contesting the effects of oil and gas on underground spaces like aquifers and caves, thus inventing new cultures of conservation practice.

Select Publications

• Bosworth, Kai. 2022. Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21^st Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Bosworth, Kai. 2024. “Filling the Hole? On New Geographies of the Subsurface.” Progress in Human Geography 48 (2): 151-171.
• Bosworth, Kai. 2024. “Karsty and Miserable: Dark Humor in the Subsurface Geopoetics of Caving.” Emotion, Space and Society 52: 101016.
• Bosworth, Kai. 2023. “What Is ‘Affective Infrastructure’?” Dialogues in Human Geography 13 (1): 54–72.
• Bosworth, Kai, and Charmaine Chua. 2023. “The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler-State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade.” Antipode 55 (5): 1345–67.
• Bosworth, Kai. 2022. “The Bad Environmentalism of ‘Nature Is Healing’ Memes.” cultural geographies. 29(3): 353-74.