Extracting sovereignty: Capital, territory, and gold mining in Tanzania

Political Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 70-79

  Emel, Jody ^a   Huber, Matthew T ^b   Makene, Madoshi H ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital; Gold; Sovereignty; State; Tanzania; Territory

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GOLD MINE; MINERAL RESOURCE; MINING INDUSTRY; NATION STATE; NATIONALISM; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOVEREIGNTY; TERRITORY;

TANZANIA;

EID: 79952441026     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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