Landscape unmasked: Kenneth Olwig and the ghostly relations between concepts

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 379-387

  Mels, Tom ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84993734354     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1474474003eu281ra     Document Type: Article

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