Clash of the eco-Sciences: Carbon marketization, environmental ngos and performativity as politics

Economy and Society

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 451-476

  Blok, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon markets; Climate justice; Materialist politics of techno science; Performativity of economics; Transnational environmental ngos

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ANTHROPOLOGY; CARBON; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS; VALUATION;

EID: 80052224815     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2011.574422     Document Type: Article

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