Karst Berkenbosch

About me

Hi there, my name is Karst. I am a political geographer with a strong interest in how geopolitics are shaped in everyday settings. That includes a focus on how interacting top-down and bottom-up processes shape borders, territories and cross-border relations, as well as how human-environment interactions add into this mix. To better understand these interactions, I breach disciplinary walls and integrate cultural political economy, assemblage theory and insights from political ecology in my work.

For my current project I look at how cross-border relations in the Gulf of Saint-Malo, a cross-border marine region between the Channel Islands, the UK and France, are shaped by people working in and governing the local fishing industry. I have previous experience as a policy analyst at the municipality of Assen (the Netherlands), where I examined the fit of spatial policy with the new Dutch legal framework for spatial planning.

Full CV and references available on request.


Publications

2026
Berkenbosch, K., Stoffelen, A., and Bono, F. (2026). The multiscalar and dynamic nature of geopolitics: cross-border fisheries governance during Brexit. Territory, Politics, Governance, (online first).

Berkenbosch, K., Stoffelen, A., and Bono, F. (2026). More-Than-Human Geopolitics: How Fishing Shapes Cross-Border Relations in the Gulf of Saint-Malo. Geopolitics, 31(1), 288–312.

2024
Berkenbosch, K. (2024). De Noordzee als terrein voor politiek geografen. Agora, 40 (1).

2022
Berkenbosch, K., Groote, P., and Stoffelen, A. (2022). Industrial heritage in tourism marketing: legitimizing post-industrial development strategies of the Ruhr Region, Germany. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 17 (3).