Accounting, territorialization and power

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4-24

  Mennicken, Andrea ^a   Miller, Peter ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Calculative practices; Governmentality; Power; Territorialisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862262421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18325203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i13.3503     Document Type: Review

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