Inquiring minds and postcolonial devices: Examining poverty at a distance

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 507-523

  Bell, Morag ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commission of inquiry; Cultural power; Geographies of science; Postcoloniality; South Africa

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POST-COLONIALISM; POVERTY; POWER RELATIONS;

EID: 1642512159     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.00302     Document Type: Review

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