Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process

Mobilities

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 585-603

  Tyfield, David ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automobility; China; Electric Vehicles; Foucault; Liberalism; System Transition

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC VEHICLE; LIBERALISM; MOBILITY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL PROCESS; POWER RELATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84920944147     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961262     Document Type: Article

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