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

Christiansen, Jens LU ; Cohen, Dan ; García-Lamarca, Melissa LU orcid ; Rosenman, Emily and van Veelen, Bregje LU orcid (2025) In Finance and Space 2(1). p.474-482
Abstract
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.
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  title        = {{The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/235921502/Christiansen_et_al_The_war_on_woke_anti-ESG_investing_and_research_directions_in_financial_geography_2025.pdf}},
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