(Re)assembling neoliberal logics in the service of climate justice: Fuzziness and perverse consequences in the fossil fuel divestment assemblage

Assembling Neoliberalism: Expertise, Practices, Subjects

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 131-149

  Mayes, Robyn ^a   Richards, Carol ^a   Woods, Michael ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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