Seeing Like an oil company: Space, security, and global capital in neoliberal Africa

American Anthropologist

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 377-382

  Ferguson, James ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Capital; Corporations; Oil; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444443080     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.377     Document Type: Article

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