Places or Polygons? Governmentality, Scale, and the Census in The Gay and Lesbian Atlas.
This paper responds to recent calls for a Foucauldian population geography by critically analysing the 2004 Gay and Lesbian Atlas (a US-oriented product of demographers at Washington, DC's Urban Institute, a public policy 'think tank'). We employ a framework that foregrounds issues of governmentalit...
| Publicado en: | Population Space & Place Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 223 - 243 |
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