Regimes of Dispossession: From Steel Towns to Special Economic Zones

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 381-407

  Levien, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; NEOLIBERALISM; STATE LED DEVELOPMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 84875081128     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12012     Document Type: Article

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