The Brazilian anti-dam movement: Knowledge contestation as communicative action

Organization and Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-346

  McCormick, Sabrina ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Environmental activism; Environmental movement; Habermas; Lay knowledge; Scientific authority; Social movements; Theory of communicative action

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

SCAEVIUS MILII;

EID: 33746946442     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026606292494     Document Type: Article

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