Culture, Conflict, and Translocal Communication: Mobile Technology and Politics in Rural West Bengal, India

Ethnos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 398-420

  Tenhunen, Sirpa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

globalization; India; Mobile technology; politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855857204     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2011.580356     Document Type: Article

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