Sport and soft authoritarian nation-building

Political Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-51

  Koch, Natalie ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Cycling; Focus groups; Kazakhstan; Nationalism; Sport

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATIONALISM; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POWER RELATIONS; SPORT; STATE BUILDING; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84873729384     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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