Experimental publics: Activist culture and political intelligibility of climate change action in the Hunter Valley, Southeast Australia

Oceania

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-249

  Connor, Linda H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Citizenship; Climate change; Coal; Environmentalism; Ethnography; Global warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869122131     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2012.tb00131.x     Document Type: Article

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