The power of stereotypes and enemy images: The case of the Chechen wars

Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference: Whose House is This?

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 155-168

  Petersson, Bo ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Lund University   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582644     Document Type: Chapter

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