Actors, networks, and globalised assemblages: Rethinking oil, the environment and conflict in Ghana

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 38, Issue , 2018, Pages 68-76

  Siakwah, Pius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Conflict; Delayed manifestation; The environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041534759     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.01.021     Document Type: Article

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