Targeted!: Population Segmentation, Electronic Surveillance and Governing the Unemployed in Australia

International Sociology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-191

  Henman, Paul ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

governmentality; mutual obligation; risk; surveillance; targeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042594286     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580904042899     Document Type: Article

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