Disasterologies

Social Epistemology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 315-319

  Grajeda, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Failure; Rationalization; Subjectivity; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444441275     PISSN: 02691728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02691720500145381     Document Type: Article

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