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- Title
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century by Kai Bosworth (review).
- Authors
Braun, Sebastian
- Abstract
The article is a review of the book "Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century" by Kai Bosworth. The book explores the fight against the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and delves into the philosophical problem of how a movement can be popular without being populist. The reviewer praises the engaging narrative sections of the book, which provide insights into resistance movements and the work involved in organizing a popular movement. However, the reviewer criticizes the jargon-infused political reflections in the book, which they find obscure and irrelevant. They also highlight the author's inclusion of post-Spinozan theory and discussions of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, which they feel would have been better suited for a philosophical discussion rather than added to the book's description of Midwestern pragmatism. Overall, the reviewer suggests that the book offers valuable insights into grassroots movements and the challenges they face in opposing pipelines.
- Subjects
TWENTY-first century; KEYSTONE pipeline project; ENVIRONMENTALISM; COLONIES; GRASSROOTS movements
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2023, Vol 58, Issue 3, p278
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2023.a912278