The london bombings: Mobile witnessing, mortal bodies and globital time

Memory Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-311

  Reading, Anna ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

globital memory field; London bombings; mobile phones; terrorism; time; witnessing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960128417     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698011402672     Document Type: Article

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