“Pure fabrication”: Information policy, media rights, and the postcolonial public

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Hultin, Niklas ^a  

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EID: 77956496197     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.2007.30.1.1     Document Type: Article

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