Symbolic violence and the politics of environmental pollution science: The case of coal ash pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 621-640

  Broto, Vanesa Castán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bosnia and Herzegovina; Cultural hegemony; Environmental justice; Environmental pollution; Social constructionism; Symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; HEGEMONY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SYMBOLISM; VIOLENCE;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY; TUZLA;

EID: 84876345161     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01059.x     Document Type: Article

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