Climate change and post-politics: Repoliticizing the present by imagining the future?

Geoforum

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-156

  Kenis, Anneleen ^a   Mathijs, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chantal Mouffe; Climate justice; Direct action; Ernesto Laclau; Jacques Ranci re; Post politics; Repoliticization; System change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893929069     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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