Garden terrorists and the war on weeds: Interrogating New Zealand's biosecurity regime

Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 165-184

  Barker, Kezia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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