The Aporia of power: Crisis and the emergence of the corporate state

Social Analysis

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 125-151

  Kapferer, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic processes; Corporate state; Crisis; Globalization; Nation state; Reterritorialization; Violence; War machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956026729     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2010.540108     Document Type: Article

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