Freedom as Mobility: Implications of the Distinction between Actual and Potential Travelling

Mobilities

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 465-488

  Sager, Tore ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Freedom; Liberal paradox; Mobility; Mobility rights; Motility; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009632240     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100600902420     Document Type: Article

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