In whose interest? Financial surveillance and the circuits of exception in the war on terror

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-475

  Atia, Mona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CONFLICT; FINANCIAL PROVISION; POLITICAL CONFLICT; RELIGION; SOVEREIGNTY; TERRORISM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250819332     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d1805g     Document Type: Article

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