Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 198-217

  Sullivan, Sian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental conservation; Environmentality; Financialisation; Foucault; Frontier; Marx; Primitive accumulation

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITALISM; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL PROVISION; INVESTMENT; MARXISM;

EID: 84871109650     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00989.x     Document Type: Article

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