The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and three decades of human rights' activism: Embeddedness, emotions, and social movements

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 342-365

  Bosco, Fernando J ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Emotions; Networks; Social movements

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; SENSE OF PLACE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TERRITORIALITY; WOMENS ORGANIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33748262512     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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