The battles in Miami: The fall of the FTAA/ALCA and the promise of transnational movements

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 349-366

  Wainwright, Joel ^a   Ortiz, Rafael ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE TRADE; GLOBALIZATION; POPULAR PROTEST;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745790284     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d3604     Document Type: Article

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