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A man on a hill, Jens Christiansen. Photo.

Jens Christiansen

Postdoctoral fellow

A man on a hill, Jens Christiansen. Photo.

The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography

Author

  • Jens Christiansen
  • Dan Cohen
  • Melissa García-Lamarca
  • Emily Rosenman
  • Bregje van Veelen

Summary, in English

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle,
around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and
financial spheres are mobilising. We delve into four dynamics that characterise this
quickly changing landscape and propose a set of conceptual avenues to analyse
them. Gramscian political economy, legal geographies and science and technology
studies (STS)-inspired approaches provide tools for grasping the changing ESG
landscape across scales and illuminate its legal, material, and organisational effects
within and beyond the US.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Publishing year

2025-12-05

Language

English

Pages

474-482

Publication/Series

Finance and Space

Volume

2

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Economic Geography
  • Human Geography
  • Environmental Studies in Social Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2833-115X