Assemblage thinking and participatory development: Potentiality, ethics, biopolitics

Geography Compass

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-13

  Grove, Kevin ^a   Pugh, Jonathan ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POWER RELATIONS; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EID: 84922655417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12191     Document Type: Article

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