Working for water’s ‘alienbusters’: Material and metaphoric campaigns against ‘alien invaders’

Critical Arts

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 127-149

  Murray, Sally Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Alienbusters campaign; Discursive volatility; Workin for water

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951950313     PISSN: 02560046     EISSN: 19926049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02560040585310091     Document Type: Article

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