Visions of nature, spaces of empire: Framing natural history programming within geometries of power

Geoforum

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 973-985

  Christophers, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Economic geographies; Empire; Nature; New Zealand; Representation; Television; UK

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; MEDIA ROLE; TELEVISION;

AUSTRALASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEW ZEALAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750516973     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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