Counter-surveillance as political intervention?

Social Semiotics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-534

  Monahan, Torin ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Art; Globalization; Resistance; Social control; Social movements; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249150879     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330601019769     Document Type: Article

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