Academic Writing
With academic training in rhetoric, composition, gender studies, and environmental humanities, with interests in community and advocacy writing, place-based pedagogies, affect theory, spatial rhetoric, and settler colonial studies, my work centers on how we are constituted differently in shared landscapes, and how discourse shapes our understanding of the material. These interests have come together in my ongoing work on recreational colonialism, ecofascism, and community writing.
Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors
In Recreational Colonialism and the Rhetorical Landscapes of the Outdoors, Kyle Boggs chronicles the struggle between Indigenous peoples who have rooted religious and cultural ties to outdoor sites across the US and elsewhere and the settlers who claim the right to freely recreate in those same places. Synthesizing theories of rhetoric, environmental studies, and settler colonialism, Boggs confronts the ways that settler colonial experiences and expectations have been narrated through rhetorical practices on these so-called public lands. Fusing journalism and personal narrative with scholarly research, Boggs’s argument comes to bear on his central case study of a northern Arizona ski development on a mountain held sacred by at least thirteen Indigenous tribes. In illuminating the striking ways that settler imaginaries are accommodated, performed, and sustained in the everyday, Boggs offers a powerful reminder that even during leisure activities (in this case, sports such as ultrarunning, rock climbing, and skiing), complex webs of power control who can access resources and land and who has the right to protect histories and cultures. Ohio State University Press, 2025.
Book Chapters and Articles
“The Public Art of Listening: Relational Accountability and The Painted Desert Project” in Community Listening: Stories, Hauntings, Possibilities. Edited by Jenn Fishman, Romeo García, and Lauren Rosenberg. Perspectives on Writing series for the WAC Clearinghouse. University Press of Colorado. 93-115.
“Mountain Biking, Writing, and Reckoning.” In Writer’s Stories in Motion: Healing, Joy, and Triumph, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale. Peter Lang Publishing. 115-126.
The Rhetorical Landscapes of the Alt-Right and the Patriot Movements: Settler Entitlement to Native Land” In The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse, and Communication. Edited by Bernhard Forchtner. Routledge. 293-309.
“The Material-Discursive Spaces of Outdoor Recreation: Rhetorical Exclusion and Settler Colonialism at the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort.” Ecocosmologies and “Western” Epistemologies, special issue of Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, vol. 11, no 2, 175-196.
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