Not all practices are equal: An exploration of discourses, governmentality and scale-free networks

Social Semiotics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 345-361

  Dent, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discursive practices; Foucault; Interdisciplinary subjectification; Patent examiners; Scale free networks; Topography of practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950748024     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330903072698     Document Type: Article

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