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• Winner of Pipeline Populism 2023

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Pipeline Populism is an endlessly insightful, generative study of environmental populism as a response to extractivism and neoliberal environmentalism. Sensitive to multiracial populism's democratic aspirations and its settler colonial desires, Kai Bosworth offers a vital guide to the limits of populist pipeline resistance and its resources for more revolutionary socialist transformation. This is essential reading for those interested in left-wing populism and climate justice alike. -Laura Grattan, author of Populism's Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America Environmental populism is a genre of white settler politics that may reiterate the worst parts of American hubris and anti-government individualism, but it may also have openings within it for transformation, through solidarity with indigenous people and more radical political action. Kai Bosworth's wonderful analysis of the 'affective infrastructures' of environmental populism helps us see the politics of climate change, and of populism, with a sharper and more nuanced eye. This book is an indispensable guide to many of the problems plaguing left-wing environmental politics, and it also offers us a clearer vision with which to move forward, both as academics and political actors. -Lida Maxwell, author of Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling Pipeline's focus on populism is a unique approach to defining and engaging with the climate movement, bringing together geographical and political concerns to approach questions of community organization and activist movements. -H-Net Reviews

Pipeline Populism is an endlessly insightful, generative study of environmental populism as a response to extractivism and neoliberal environmentalism. Sensitive to multiracial populism's democratic aspirations and its settler colonial desires, Kai Bosworth offers a vital guide to the limits of populist pipeline resistance and its resources for more revolutionary socialist transformation. This is essential reading for those interested in left-wing populism and climate justice alike. -Laura Grattan, author of Populism's Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America Environmental populism is a genre of white settler politics that may reiterate the worst parts of American hubris and anti-government individualism, but it may also have openings within it for transformation, through solidarity with indigenous people and more radical political action. Kai Bosworth's wonderful analysis of the 'affective infrastructures' of environmental populism helps us see the politics of climate change, and of populism, with a sharper and more nuanced eye. This book is an indispensable guide to many of the problems plaguing left-wing environmental politics, and it also offers us a clearer vision with which to move forward, both as academics and political actors. -Lida Maxwell, author of Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling

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Kai Bosworth is assistant professor of international studies in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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