'Kidnapping go build back we economy': Discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-64

  Prentice, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84856948226     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01730.x     Document Type: Article

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