Reification and the dictatorship of the water meter

Antipode

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1023-1045

  Loftus, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA; DURBAN; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33751050790     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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