Violent morphologies: Landscape, border and scale in Ahmedabad conflict

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1003-1013

  Chatterjee, Ipsita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Border; India; Landscape; Scale; Urban conflict; Violence

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; DEMOCRATIZATION; ETHNIC CONFLICT; MINORITY GROUP; NEOLIBERALISM; URBAN AREA; URBAN RENEWAL; VIOLENCE;

AHMEDABAD; ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70450239520     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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