Capturing the personal in politics: Ethnographies of global environmental governance

Global Environmental Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 21-40

  Corson, Catherine ^a   Campbell, Lisa M ^b   MacDonald, Kenneth I ^c  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ETHNOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; PARADIGM SHIFT; POWER RELATIONS;

EID: 84906233634     PISSN: 15263800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/GLEP_a_00237     Document Type: Article

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