'Geography is pregnant' and 'geography's milk is flowing': Metaphors for a postcolonial discipline?

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-168

  Noxolo, Pat ^a   Raghuram, Parvati ^b   Madge, Clare ^c  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MARGINALIZATION; POST-COLONIALISM;

EID: 40949114704     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d81j     Document Type: Article

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