Vigilance: On conflict, social invisibility, and negative potentiality

Social Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 93-114

  Vigh, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Comparison; Insecurity; Negative potentiality; Social invisibility; Uncertainty; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856719879     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/sa.2011.550306     Document Type: Article

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