'Even if i am not here, there are so many eyes': Surveillance and state reach in Rwanda

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-497

  Purdeková, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; DECENTRALIZATION; ETHNIC CONFLICT; FIELDWORK; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POST-WAR; POWER RELATIONS; STATE BUILDING; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS;

RWANDA;

EID: 80054884549     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X11000292     Document Type: Article

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