"Place-framing" as place-making: Constituting a neighborhood for organizing and activism

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 730-750

  Martin, Deborah G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Discourse; Neighborhood organizing; Place frames

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT PAUL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10944239238     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.9303011     Document Type: Review

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