Technologizing complacency: Spectacle, structural violence, and "living normally" in a resource-rich state

Political Geography

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Koch, Natalie ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental regime; Kazakhstan; Oil; Protest; Spectacle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890150012     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.05.006     Document Type: Editorial

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