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Politics of Environmental Science and Knowledge

Speaking Power to “Post-Truth”: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism

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Pages 613-623 | Received 01 Dec 2017, Accepted 01 Jul 2018, Published online: 06 Feb 2019

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