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Don't compromise your desire for development! A Lacanian/Deleuzian rethinking of the anti-politics machine

Pieter De vries Department of Rural Development Sociology, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706, KN, Wageningen, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 25-43 | Published online: 22 Jan 2007

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