Assemblage and social movements: Tibet Support Groups and the spatialities of political organisation

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-286

  Davies, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Politics; Social movementsassemblage; Space; Tibet

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNOPOLITICS; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84858007058     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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