For ethnography in political geography: Experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures

Political Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 622-640

  Megoran, Nick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical geopolitics; Ethnography; International boundaries; Kyrgyzstan; Political geography; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

ETHNOPOLITICS; GEOPOLITICS; POLITICAL BOUNDARY; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; KYRGYZSTAN; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 33746237635     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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