Violent Accumulation: A Postanarchist Critique of Property, Dispossession, and the State of Exception in Neoliberalizing Cambodia

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 608-626

  Springer, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cambodia; primitive accumulation; property; sovereignty; violence

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LEGAL SYSTEM; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL RELATIONS; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOVEREIGNTY; VIOLENCE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL VIOLENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 82755163911     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.628259     Document Type: Article

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