The cyberpolitics of the governed.
How do governed postcolonial subjects perform resistance in the age of the internet? What are their oppositional practices, networks and creativity? This paper offers an empirical analysis of the emerging network politics in Macau, the former colony of Portugal whose sovereignty was returned to Chin...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 252 - 272 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2013
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