Introduction: Anthropologies of planning-temporality, imagination, and ethnography

Focaal

Volumn , Issue 61, 2011, Pages 3-18

  Abram, Simone ^a   Weszkalnys, Gisa ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neoliberalism; Planning; Policy; Promise; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862697789     PISSN: 09201297     EISSN: 15585263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2011.610101     Document Type: Article

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