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Blundo, Giorgio/Glasman, Joël (2013): Introduction: Bureaucrats in Uniform, in: Sociologus, vol. 63, iss. 1–2, 1-9, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.63.1-2.1
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Introduction: Bureaucrats in Uniform

Blundo, Giorgio | Glasman, Joël

Sociologus, Vol. 63(2013), Iss. 1–2 : pp. 1–9

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Giorgio Blundo, Centre Norbert Elias, EHESS, 2 Rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille.

Joel Glasman, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin.

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