Consume, Connect, Conserve: Consumer Spectacle and the Technical Mediation of Neoliberal Conservation's Aesthetic of Redemption and Repair

Human Geography(United Kingdom)

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-28

  Igoe, Jim ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

conservaci n; conservation; Consumo; consumption; espect culo; fachada; fa ade; neoliberalism; neoliberalismo; posdemocracia; post democracy; spectacle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891654297     PISSN: 19427786     EISSN: 2633674X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/194277861300600102     Document Type: Article

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