Politicised pagodas and veiled resistance: Contested urban space in Burma

Urban Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1587-1610

  Philp, Janette ^a   Mercer, David ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN POLITICS;

MYANMAR;

EID: 0036321591     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00420980220151673     Document Type: Article

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