Capetonian back streets: Territorializing young men

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 275-301

  Jensen, Steffen ^a  

^a Rehabiliterings og Forskningscentret for Torturofre   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cape Town; crime; Deleuze; gangs; governance; Guattari; policing; urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249157789     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106069517     Document Type: Article

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