Biodiversity, purity, and death: Conservation biology as biopolitics

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 257-273

  Biermann, Christine ^a   Mansfield, Becky ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biopolitics; Conservation biology; Evolution; Extinction; Race

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; NATURE CONSERVATION; RACE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898476578     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d13047p     Document Type: Article

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