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Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science

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Using carbon markets as an example, the chapter demonstrates the potential value of assemblage thinking to understanding the emergence of market-oriented climate change policy interventions. Through exploring the historical emergence of aspirations and plans for carbon markets, the role of political actors in their actual formation and the way in which these markets have been re-configured in the event of various crises, the chapter highlights that carbon markets are neither a simple neoliberal fix for climate change nor a stable formation that has successfully internalized and translated diverse actants. Rather, carbon markets are continually being re-assembled in ways that enhance and at the same time provide opportunities to challenge existing political-economic ideas.

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    Samuel Randalls

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  1. School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Vaughan Higgins

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    Wendy Larner

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Randalls, S. (2017). Assembling Climate Expertise: Carbon Markets, Neoliberalism and Science. In: Higgins, V., Larner, W. (eds) Assembling Neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58204-1_4

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