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Artist / Author Caoimhe McAvinchey
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-230-24793-2
Reference P1754
Date 2011
Type Publication

Keywords

economic incarceration institution oppression performance public engagement punishment social society spectacle

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