The social optics of space: Visibility and invisibility in the borderlands of Borneo

Space and Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 176-195

  Amster, Matthew H ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Borneo; Internet; Kelabit; Social optics; The state; visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049274094     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331208317068     Document Type: Review

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