Do cellular phones dream of civil war?the mystification of production and the consequences of technology fetishism in the eastern congo

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 71-96

  Smith, James H ^a   Mantz, Jeffrey W ^b  

^a California state university ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315786759     Document Type: Chapter

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