Workshop on Neoliberal Environmental Thought

Isabel Oakes & Troy Vettese

How do neoliberals understand and address the environmental crisis? What are their proposals for managing climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, new zoonoses, overfishing and myriad related problems, while preserving the market order? Early on in the history of neoliberalism, its theorists recognized early on that simple privatization would not work for some environmental problems but struggled to create markets in commons that defied easy enclosure. The purpose of this workshop is to complement the burgeoning field of neoliberal studies that has been been advanced in recent years by scholars such as Wendy Brown, Jessica Whyte, Quinn Slobodian, John O’Neill, Dieter Plehwe, and Philip Mirowski by addressing the important but under-researched sub-field of neoliberal environmental thought.

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