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Governing Civil Society: How Literacy, Education and Security Were Brought Together

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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a study of the types of power governments use to deploy education and literacy practices as technologies to secure civil society?

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Kelly, S. (2018). Governing Civil Society: How Literacy, Education and Security Were Brought Together. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_30

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