The socioenvironmental state: political authority, subjects, and transformative socionatural change in an uncertain world
Andrea J. Nightingale
- Vol. 1, Iss: 4, pp 688-711
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In this article, the authors investigate how contested, shifting, emergent boundaries of the state contain the possibilities for transformative change in the Anthropocene, and propose the notion of the socioenvironmental state.Abstract:
The ‘socioenvironmental state’ conceptualisation probes how contested, shifting, emergent boundaries of the state contain the possibilities for transformative change in the Anthropocene. The paper ...read more
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