Beyond Discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space, and lines of flight online and at school

Educational Philosophy and Theory

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 598-618

  Ringrose, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Cyber bullying; Deleuze; Desire; Femininity; Guattari; Social networking sites; Subjectification; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649675194     PISSN: 00131857     EISSN: 14695812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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