War and the commons: Assessing the changing politics of violence, access and entitlements in Sri Lanka

Geoforum

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-403

  Korf, Benedikt ^a   Fünfgeld, Hartmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Access regimes; Civil war; Commons; Political geography; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL VIOLENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33645571753     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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