Low-tech surveillance and the despotic state in Eritrea

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 93-113

  Bozzini, David M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Checkpoints; Complicity; Conscription; Despotism; Eritrea; Police state; Suspicion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012830116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24908/ss.v9i1/2.4102     Document Type: Article

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