New Article: Petro-Security State Power and the Imaginaries of Extremism: An Analysis of US Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bills Targeting Anti-Pipeline Advocacy Movements

Petrochemical pipelines have taken center stage in public debates about the impacts of resource extraction dependencies and calls for greater participation in environmental governance. However, these concerns can run counter to the interests of the petrochemical industry and state security imaginaries that frame critics as threats. These imaginaries are evident in a suite of critical infrastructure (CI) trespass bills introduced by U.S. state legislatures implicating the activities of anti-pipeline protest…