Counter-conducts: A foucauldian analytics of protest

Social Movement Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-251

  Death, Carl ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Counter conducts; Foucault; Governmentality; Protest; Resistance; Summits

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956183903     PISSN: 14742837     EISSN: 14742829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2010.493655     Document Type: Article

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