Walls and white elephants: Oil extraction, responsibility, and infrastructural violence in Equatorial Guinea

Ethnography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 439-465

  Appel, Hannah C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

disentanglement; enclaves; Equatorial Guinea; oil extraction; responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867966580     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138111435741     Document Type: Article

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