What One Sees and How One Files Seeing: Human Rights Reporting, Representation and Action1

Sociology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 876-890

  Moon, Claire ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

human rights activism; human rights reports; ideology; knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867420653     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512451530     Document Type: Article

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