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MARIKANA AND THE LIMITS OF BIOPOLITICS: THEMES IN THE RECENT SCHOLARSHIP OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINING

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2014

Keith Breckenridge
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Africa , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 151 - 161
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Copyright © International African Institute 2014 

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