Technologies of social control: Crowd management in liberal democracy

Economy and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-74

  Durrheim, Kevin ^a   Foster, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Crowd control; Expertise; Governmentality; Psychology; Self regulation; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040142093     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085149900000024     Document Type: Article

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