The global performance slate: A reconsideration of the Central Asian “weak state”

Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 29-54

  Heathershaw, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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