Contact zones: Rethinking the sensual life of the state

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-225

  Linke, Uli ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact zones; Embodiment; National states; Political somaticity; Politics of the senses; Sensual regimes; Sentiments; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249156519     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499606065037     Document Type: Article

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