Toward a politics of possibility: Charting shifts in utopian imagination through the world social forum process

Journal of Futures Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-14

  Ramos, Jose ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Queensland University of Technology ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Alter globalization; Social forum; Social movements; Utopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847727328     PISSN: 10276084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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