Catastrophic Populations and the Fear of the Future: Malthus and the Genealogy of Liberal Economy

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-155

  Tellmann, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

affect; biopolitics; colonialism; futurity; governmentality; liberal economy; population; scarcity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875363055     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276412455830     Document Type: Article

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