When looking for anarchy, look to the state: Fantasies of regulation in forcing disorder within the Australian Indigenous estate

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-124

  Lea, Tess ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; affect; anarchy; animism; Australia; bureaucracy; intervention; pleasure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862154223     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X12438251     Document Type: Article

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