Toward a critical geography of the border: Engaging the dialectic of practice and meaning

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1126-1139

  Bauder, Harald ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspect seeing; Borders; Critical geography; Dialectics; Migration

Indexed keywords

ASPECT; MIGRATION; PHILOSOPHY;

EID: 79960995903     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.577356     Document Type: Review

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