State of vulnerability and humanitarian visibility on the verge of Sudan's secession: Lubna's pants and the transnational politics of rights and dissent

Signs

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-184

  Fadlalla, Amal Hassan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 80052395561     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660179     Document Type: Article

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