Reconceptualising spaces of the air: Performing the multiple spatialities of UK military airspaces

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-267

  Williams, Alison J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airspaces; Geopolitics; Militarism; Performance; Power projection; UK air defence

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MILITARY APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOVEREIGNTY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79953113062     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2010.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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