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6 - Aesthetics, Power, and Insecurity

Self-Interrogative Imaging and the West

from Part II - The West in Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

By
Brent J. Steele
Edited by
Gunther Hellmann  and
Benjamin Herborth
Gunther Hellmann
Affiliation:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
Benjamin Herborth
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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Uses of 'the West'
Security and the Politics of Order
 , pp. 111 - 135
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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