The right to pass freely: Circulation, begging, and the bounded self

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-350

  Blomley, Nicholas ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

begging; Canadian cities; liberalism; panhandling; public space; Safe Streets Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956205965     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663910372183     Document Type: Article

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