Seeing Red: Baghdad and the event-ful city

Political Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 266-279

  Gregory, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baghdad; Biopolitics; Counterinsurgency; Mappings; Visuality; War

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL MAPPING; GEOPOLITICS; MILITARY INTERVENTION; RATIONALIZATION; VIOLENCE; WAR;

BAGHDAD [IRAQ]; IRAQ; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955310223     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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